The elite strike force RAB foiled an attempt of suicide attack by arresting two members of suicide squad of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from the city’s Maghbazar and Hatirpool yesterday and recovered live bomb from one of them.The arrested were identified as Hafez Ahmed Mainuddin Udoy (20), son of Sahabuddin Ahmed a student of Jamia Ahmadiya Sonia Hefjokhana Madrasa in Chittagong and Sheikh Arif Uddin, son of Sheikh Farid Uddin of Kachua in Bagerhat district.
Acting on a tip off that a suicide squad member came to Dhaka from Chittagong on December 30 and was staying in hotel, Sebika, at Maghbazar, a squad of RAB-2 conducted raid and arrested Udoy from in front of Sonali Bank while he was boarding a taxicab at around 2 pm, RAB sources said. The RAB members recovered a live bomb contained in a sweetmeat packet from his possession, sources added. Later, the RAB personnel defused the bomb.
Following Udoy’s
The RAB personnel confirmed that both Udoy and Arif came to Dhaka with an assignment of carrying out suicide attacks in Dhaka on the 31st night, a highly placed source in RAB said adding that one person gave him the bomb but he declined to disclose his identity.
Several teams of RAB are conducting block raids in different parts of Dhaka as they believed that there is more suicide squad members in Dhaka who came here from another district for carrying out suicide bombings, sources said.