Police confirmed the identities of the six Indian citizens, arrested at Nalitabari border in Sherpur on Thursday, as members of Indian militant organisation National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) of Assam. The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel arrested the six and a Bangladeshi indigenous man at Burunga of Nalitabari upazila early Thursday. They also recovered firearms, ammunition, and bomb-making materials from their possession.After a
Sub-inspector (SI) Shafiqur Rahman, second officer of Nalitabari Police Station, said acting on a tip off the BDR personnel early Thursday raided the house of Imrul and arrested him along with the six Indian militants. They arrested Imrul in connection with harbouring the Indian citizens on Bangladesh territory.
After interrogating the arrestees, BDR personnel on Friday night recovered a sub-machinegun (SMG), a barrel of an SMG, 350 bullets of different firearms, seven bomb detonators, 42 electronic circuits for making bombs, four explosive wraps, wires, a large knife, and a map of the forest behind Imrul's house.
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