Bangladesh arrests 3 militants
The organisation go to a organisation blamed for a cafeteria encircle in Dhaka final year that left 22 people dead, including 18 foreigners. PHOTO: AFP
DHAKA: Bangladesh military Sunday arrested 3 suspected militants and seized weapons and explosives in a raid targeting a homegrown organisation indicted of orchestrating a fibre of lethal attacks.
The contingent were incarcerated in a pre-dawn raid during a mango camp in a northwestern district of Chapai Nawabganj.
Commander Abdullah al Murad, from a Rapid Action Battalion, pronounced a organisation were from a Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh, a organisation blamed for a cafeteria encircle in Dhaka final year that left 22 people dead, including 18 foreigners.
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“We had information that around 14 to 15 JMB organisation were carrying a tip assembly low inside a plantation. We conducted a raid early in a morning and managed to turn adult 3 of them,” he told AFP, adding a organisation would be charged with terrorism offences.
“We have recovered a semi-automatic pistol, bullets, over a kilo of explosve powder and jihadi books in their possession.”
Since a cafeteria conflict in Jul 2016, Bangladesh has killed scarcely 70 indicted militants in raids and shootouts directed during decapitating a JMB and a leadership.
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But a organisation stays active, with military warning of new cells and plots for attacks in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority republic of 160 million.
The JMB rose to prominence in a early 2000s with a fibre of explosve attacks. Five comparison total were executed on charges of murder, genocide, woe and rape associated to those attacks.
In new years Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s physical supervision has blamed a JMB for a array of attacks on foreigners, non-believer bloggers, rights activists and eremite minorities.
The many distinguished of these, a electrocute of hostages during a upmarket Holey cafe, was claimed by a Islamic State group. But Hasina blamed a JMB for a destruction and denied a tellurian militants organisation had a foothold in Bangladesh.
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