The deceased were Khaled Hasan alias Badar Mama, 32, JMB‘s northern region military wing commander and son of Enamul Haque at Hamidpur village under Nachol upazila of Chapainawbganj and Ripon, 28, assistant of Khaled hailed from Boalia, Rajshahi.
Acording to police sources, on a tip-off, a team of police raided Sirajnagar village while the JMB men were holding a secrere meeting. Sensing the presence of the law enforcers criminals opened fire trigerring a gunfight. In the gunfight, two of the militants and two policemen were injured.
The injured were rushed to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital where doctors declared the militants dead.
Police recovered a pistol, bullets and materials used in making grenades from the spot.
Khan Mohammad Erfan, officer-in-charge of Sherpur police station, said Khalid was accused in several cases including that of life attempt on Italian doctor Piero Parolari in Dinajpur in November 2015 and the bombing on the Kantaji temple.
On June 14, a suspected member of JMB, who was accused in the attack on a Shia mosque in Bogra, was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Shibganj upazila.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
