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JMB-DETAINED (with picture)
5 JMB men held with firearm in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, Aug 31, 2018 (BSS) – A special team of Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB) arrested five members of outlawed Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)
with firearm, ammunitions and bomb-making materials from Char areas in
Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj districts in last night.
RAB sources said the arrestees were identified as Aminul Islam, 32,
Mosharraf Hossain alias Murshalin, 22, Ismail Hossain, 32, Rafiqul Islam, 40,
and Abdul Matin, 40.
They were arrested for their suspected involvement in the activities of
banned Islamic outfit JMB.
RAB-5 Deputy Commander Major Ashraful Islam informed this to local
journalists here this noon saying that the arrested persons are part of
banned Islamic terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB.
On a tip-off, a team of the elite force conducted an overnight raid in
the areas and arrested them from different places under Godagari Upazila and
its adjacent areas under Chapainawabgonj Sadar Upazila.
The team seized one foreign pistol, four rounds of bullets, 200 grams of
gunpowder, seven hand notes, four extremist propaganda books and other bomb-
making materials from their possession. The arrested JMB members were handed
over to police today.
BSS/AH/SA/ 1615 HRS