“One of the arrestees on remand told us today [yesterday] that as they had the plan, any of their members might have been involved in the attack.”
Source/Credit: The Daily Star
By Staff writer | December 28, 2015
Detectives yesterday claimed that the three JMB men arrested at the Mirpur “bomb and ammunition factory” on Thursday had a plan to attack an Ahmadiyya mosque in Bagmara of Rajshahi.
“One of the arrestees on remand told us today [yesterday] that as they had the plan, any of their members might have been involved in the attack,” said a Detective Branch of police (DB) official investigating the case.
On Friday, a man blew himself up inside an Ahmadiyya mosque in Bagmara during Juma prayers. The blast killed the suicide bomber and injured three people.
Just a day before that, detectives, after a drive at a building in Shah Ali area of Mirpur, claimed to have arrested the three JMB men and seized 16 improvised grenades, a suicide vest, and bomb-making materials.
Abu Sayeed alias Russell, Mohammad Elias Omar Faruk, and Mohsin Ali Rubel, alleged operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), were on a six-day remand each.
Quoting the trio, detectives claimed that the group had at least 20 fedayeen (suicide bombers). They said law enforcement agencies had held at least 30 JMB men and some of whom were fedayeens.
Sanwar Hossain, additional deputy commissioner (south) of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said they were scrutinising the information gleaned from the trio during remand.
DB officials said the JMB faction had no bomb experts since the law enforcement agencies arrested Boma Mizan in 2009.
The group opted for Mustafizur Shakil, known as Boma Shakil, who had a diploma in engineering.
Shakil and JMB second-in-command in Dhaka region Sohel Rana Hiron slipped through police fingers blending with the tenants who were being taken out of the building during the drive in Mirpur.
Under Shakil's supervision in Mirpur, several JMB operatives trained on producing bombs and homemade grenades. Two of them became experts on producing homemade grenade while seven to eight people worked as their aides, the officials said.
Meanwhile, family members and neighbours of Abu Sayeed claimed that police had picked him up from his home in Dinajpur nearly a month ago, our Dinajpur correspondent reports.
“Everybody knows that law enforcement agency members picked him [Sayeed] up from home a month ago,” said a family member seeking anonymity.
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