Bangladeshi police detain three militants in Chittagong
Bangladeshi police have detained at least three people during a raid on a militant hideout in the southeast of the country.
According to police sources in the South Asian country, the militants were arrested on Sunday when security forces searched an apartment in the southeastern port city of Chittagong.
Chittagong city police commissioner Mohammad Abdul Jalil Mondal confirmed that Security forces also managed to seize a large amount of arms and ammunition from the militants.
"A sniper rifle, ammunition, explosives, detonators, army uniforms and bomb-making materials were found in the apartment," Mondal said.
The raid was conducted based on information from three members of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen organization who had been caught in an earlier raid, the police official noted.
Bangladeshi security sources say the detained militants have been involved in subversive activities, including targeted bombings and killings of members of religious communities and foreigners across the country.
Over the past few months, Muslims, Hindus and Christians in the South Asian state have been targeted in several militant attacks, including those claimed by Daesh Takfiri terrorists. The government, however, blames local radicalized groups for the raids.
On Friday, an explosion at a mosque in northwestern Bangladesh has left a suspected bomber dead and ten others wounded. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack.
In early December, several people sustained injuries after a spate of bomb explosions targeted a Hindu gathering in northern Bangladesh.
On October 24, a bomb attack rocked Hussaini Dalan, the most important prayer and congregation site for Bangladesh’s Shia community in Dhaka. The incident left at least one person dead and dozens of others injured.
The bombing came just weeks after an Italian aid worker and a Japanese farmer were shot dead in Bangladesh.
A number of Bangladeshi writers, bloggers and intellectuals have also been killed in militants attacks in recent months.
Bangladeshi security forces have stepped up a hunt for militants behind the spate of recent attacks across the country of 160 million people.
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