11 detained for \\\'link\\\' with snatching of JMB militants

Police arrested 11 operatives of the banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for their suspected link to snatching away its three top leaders from a police prison van at Trishal in Mymensingh, reports BSS.

Two of the arrestees have financed the ambush in which a police constable was killed, said a detective branch official adding that they recovered 4.5 kilogrammes of explosives and a motorbike from their possession.

Of the three snatched JMB leaders, condemned convict JMB leader Rakib Hasan, 35, arrested hours after being hijacked from police, was killed in a gunfight with law enforcers at Mirzapur in Tangail district on February 24.