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Bangladeshi law enforcers raid militants' hideout arresting 7 with huge explosives, grenades

Xinhua, December 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

Bangladeshi law enforcers Thursday conducted a raid on a hideout of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and arrested seven suspected militants with huge explosives and grenades in capital Dhaka.

Lots of communication equipments and jihadi books were seized during the raid in an apartment in Dhaka's downtown Mirpur area.

"Seven militants including three key members of the banned militant outfit were arrested from the building," Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of Detective Branch (DB), told reporters.

Since early Thursday law enforcers cordoned off the six-storied building on receipt of information that militants were hiding there.

The militants reportedly fired and lobbed hand-made grenades as policemen and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members stormed the hideout.

JMB, campaigning for establishment of Islamic rule in Bangladesh, carried out a series of bombing attacks in 63 out of the country's 64 districts, including the capital of Dhaka on Aug. 17, 2005, leaving two people dead and 150 others injured.

Hundreds of JMB leaders and activists were rounded up while six top leaders of the group, including Shaikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged in 2007. Endit