 The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested two members of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and seized a huge cache of explosives and bomb-making materials at Rupganj in Narayanganj. The recovered materials include 1 kg each of nitrogen benzene and potassium chlorate, 100 grams of lead azide, 500 grams each of sodium nitrate and sodium azide, 45 detonators, 11 integrated circuit (IC), 24 electric connectors and an explosive measuring scale, said a Rab press release.
The arrestees are Mohammad Wasim, 25, and Ali Hossain, 25, of Rupganj.
| Soon to be last seen leaving in a RAB truck at 3 am. |
The Rab members were raiding the area, taking the two with them as of filing this report at 8:30pm.
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Following up a tip-off that JMB activists might come to Gobindaganj of Rupganj to dump some explosives, a joint team of Rab Intelligence Wing and Rab-3 was keeping a close watch on the area. At around 2:00pm, they saw two men carrying a sack on a rickshaw. Looking suspicious, the two were challenged by the crime busters. But as they could not give any satisfactory answer, the Rab men searched through the bag and found the explosives.
| You get the sense that the bag would have been searched regardless of the answers. |
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