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SMGs, explosives seized from JMB men, outlaws
 Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized eight SMGs with ammunition and a huge cache of explosives and bomb making materials busting the dens of the PBCP and JMB operatives in Pabna and Jamalpur in the last two days. The law enforcers also held an outlaw and two militants during these raids.Our Pabna correspondent reports: Tipped off, a team of Rab-12 raided Malanchi union under Pabna Sadar upazila yesterday and captured Faruq Ahmed Paban, regional chief of Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Red Flag). Following the information extracted from him during interrogation, Rab members took Faruq along with them and raided a garden of village Shimulchhara in Ataikula upazila at noon. They dug a place in the garden and recovered eight China made SMGs (sub machine guns), 1,498 SMG bullets and 25 SMG magazines. Kamrul Master, the gang's former chief who died in an encounter with Rab last year, used to maintain the arms store, Rab officials said. After his death, Faruk became the political chief and Mantu alias Mukul became the commanding chief of the outfit in Pabna region and they started to look after the firearms and ammunition. Hailing from Baraichora village in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna, Faruq did his masters from the Pabna Edward College in 1997 and joined the outlawed faction in 2000, sources said. Our staff correspondent reports: A Rab team of intelligence wing raided several JMB dens at Charaildar village under Melandah upazila in Jamalpur on Friday night and recovered the explosives cache. The seized cache includes -- 13.5 kg power gel, 75 pieces of iron-made improvised grenade body, 80 grenade heads, 117 Islamic books on jihad and four compact disks (CDs), top Rab officials told a press briefing at its headquarters in Dhaka yesterday. They also captured two JMB Ehsar members Mohammad Sohel and Mohammad Sultan during the raid. The raid was carried out following the confessions of JMB Ehsar members Habibur Rahman Yusuf and Kamrul Hasan who were arrested on March 21 with three grenades. They were fleeing after hurling a grenade at two on-duty policemen at Bhatara Bazar in Sarishabari upazila of Jamalpur. However, there were no casualties as the grenade did not explode. At the press briefing the detained JMB members told the journalists that one Abu Zafar Abdullah is now leading them across the country, but they never met him. Posted by: Fred 2007-03-25 |
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