Police also recovered equipment and materials including batteries, wires, IC, steel cartridges and various types of gun-powder, used in making explosives. They also recovered a manual containing the techniques of making and detonating time devices. These were seized from the house of one Abdul Mannan, located near the SP office. Abdul Mannan told police that Nasir rented the house six months back for Taka 1200 per month saying that he was a pen-vendor. It is learnt that the bombs were made 15 days before the countrywide terror attacks.Earlier, police also arrested a rickshaw-puller named Sagar, who transported the bombs to various spots of Khagrachhari town. Following the confession of Sagor and Sabuj, accomplices of Nasir, police launched a special drive to hunt down Nasir and at last at 3 pm yesterday he was arrested from a house owned by one Ruhul Amin at Panchhari bazar area. Police also raided some other spots yesterday following confessions of Emdadul, head of the district unit of Jamaatul Mujahideen. So far 6 suspected militants were arrested from Khagrachhari.
Meanwhile, officials of the investigating agencies rushed to Satkhira to conduct on the spot investigation to unfold the mystery of the serial bomb blasts on August 17. ‘After interrogating the suspected militants we got the impression that the blueprint of the countrywide bombings was prepared in Satkhira. So we have concentrated on the region," said an intelligence official. The two militants who confessed to their involvement in the blasts after being arrested from Satkhira, were placed on another eight-day police remand by the court yesterday. An investigation team went to Delduar thana under Tangail district to verify the confessions of the two militants who recently revealed that they received military training at Delduar. Earlier the police raided Barapakhia Qaumi Madrassa located in the area and arrested 7 suspected militants from the spot. They are Yaqub, Shahidur Rahman Khan, Maulana Eshaq, Zillur Rahman, Abdus Sobhan, Yamin Mia and Rahmat Ullah. All of them hail from Tangail district.