RAB nabs eight JMB militants, bombs recovered

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The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested eight JMB militants Sunday with a large haul of bomb-making equipment and explosives on the outskirts of the capital, said a RAB official, reports bdnews24.com.
Three of the arrestees admitted to being potential "suicide bombers", director of RAB's legal and media wing AK Azad told the news agency.
"Around 10, 000 lithium batteries for making time bombs, detonators, explosives and huge quantity of Jihadi literature, CDs and cassettes were recovered," said Azad.
He said a joint team of RAB-1 and RAB HQ's intelligence wing, acting on a tip-off, raided a house owned by Maulana Wajuddin at Tekpara village in Khilkhet.
The arrestees were identified as Tariqullah alias Rubel (26), Mohammad Hasanuzzaman (26), Mohammad Abdul Matin alias Zakir (32) Yusuf Al Asadullah BIn Wahidullah (21), Suman alias Abdullah (18), Jahidur Rahman alias Jahid (28) Anwar Hossain alias Baten (30) and Abu Sayeed alias Parvez (25).
Yusuf, Suman and Abu Sayeed confessed that they were members of a "suicide bomb squad" of the outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, said the RAB official.