Intelligence officials are yet to make any breakthrough in finding out those responsible for the near-simultaneous bomb blasts at three railway stations in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet on May 1. Law enforcers in Chittagong are looking for a woman beggar, suspected to be involved in the Chittagong Railway Station bombing, and two Hizbut Tahrir members arrested on Wednesday in Dhaka were placed on a seven-day remand.Meanwhile, law enforcers are on high alert in Bogra following information that an Islamist militant attack may be on the cards. The investigators of the railway station blasts could not make any headway to unearth whether any new militant organisation or Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and their like-minded outfits were behind the explosions that left a rickshaw-puller wounded. "We are working on it seriously taking everything into our consideration and it is not possible to say anything before the investigation completes," Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Hassan Mahmood Khandkar told The Daily Star yesterday.
Sources said the investigators are also trying to find out if any militant organisation in the country or outside has the record to circulate its identity as the new outfit Zadid al Qaeda did through inscription on aluminium plates. Besides interrogating militant leaders already detained, the investigators are focusing the probe on organisations that are against the Ahmadiyyas and NGOs. They have not also ruled out the possibility of the incident being sabotage, the sources added.
Intelligence sources said they recently had information that a new militant organisation will be floated soon and it will announce its presence by distributing leaflets in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Chittagong and Bogra regions. But the intelligence officials did not think that the militant outfit will circulate its identity through bomb blasts.