They are ‘Mamun’ alias ‘Sumon’ alias Abdur Rahman, Md Al Amin alias Abu Jihad, Mujahidul Islam alias ‘Rokon’ alias Abu Tarik and Sarowar Hossain Rahat. They were arrested in Uttara’s Azampur on Thursday night, said Saiful Islam, deputy commissioner at the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime or CTTC unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. So far, police have arrested a total of nine suspected members of the revived faction of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or Neo-JMB, over the bomb blast of Jul 24. A bomb blast occurred near a police box in Paltan on July 24. The bomb disposal unit of police detonated the bomb in a controlled explosion later.

Source: bd News24 September 11, 2020 16:18 UTC