Two ISIS members held in city

Detectives arrested two suspected members of  militant outfit Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the city on Sunday night, reports UNB.

The arrestees were identified as Aminul Islam Beg, information technology in-charge of a multinational company and his associate Sakib Bin Kamal, a teacher of an English medium school of the city.

Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) police raided the house of Aminul in Uttara sector-14 and arrested him on Sunday evening, said Joint Commissioner of DB Monirul Islam. As per Aminul's statement, the law enforcers conducted another drive in the house of Sakib in Lalmatia area and arrested him on Sunday night.

This was disclosed at a press briefing at the DMP Media Centre in the city on Monday morning.

Briefing reporters, DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam said Aminul was working in Bangladesh as a representative of ISIS. Earlier, he worked here as regional coordinator of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

During primarily interrogation, Aminul revealed that he already collected 20 people, including Sakib, from Bangladesh to join ISIS and sent them to Syria and Iraq, Monirul said.