Seventeen more members of the newly formed militant outfit ‘Imam Mahmud’s Kafela’ were arrested while fleeing at Karmadha in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district on Monday, reports UNB.
Quoting local people, Abdus Salek, officer-in-charge of Kulaura Police Station, said the suspected militants hired five CNG-run auto-rickshaws and were trying to flee the Askarabad playground around 11 am.
Suspecting their movement, the drivers of the CNG-run auto-rickshaws drove them to the Karmadha Union Parishad.
On information, police rushed to the spot and arrested them. Sohel Tanjim, a physician of a private hospital, was among the arrestees.
Rabiullah, a CNG driver, said a physically challenged man was among the group. “Three passengers, who boarded my vehicle, said they arrived here for picnic, and they will now go to Moulvibazar.”
On Saturday, members of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit have detained 10 suspected operatives of the newly formed militant outfit ‘Imam Mahmud’s Kafela’ after conducting ‘Operation Hillside’ at a hideout in a remote hilly area in East Taktiuli village under Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.
Bd-pratidin English/Lutful Hoque
