Report in bdnews24.com, May 21, 2017
Law enforcers have confirmed that there are at least five suspected terrorists, including three to four who fled the raid on Sylhet’s Atia Mahal, now cornered inside a hideout in Narsingdi.
“There are five to six inside. We will now ask them to surrender,” Mufti Mahmud Khan, media director for Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), told bdnews24.com
He later told the media about the militants from Atia Mahal. “They tried to go to Dhaka. We’ve surrounded the house after being sure about their location,” he said.
Police and Rapid Action Battalion personnel were deployed around a house at Gabtoli Uttarparao Saturday evening, said RAB-11 Commander Lt Col Kamrul Hasan.
Moin Ahmed, who lives in Dubai, owns the house located next to the Jameya Qasemia Kamil Madrasa, his brother Zakaria Ahmed told bdnews24.com. It was rented out to three men who moved in on May 3.
Zakaria said he submitted a completed tenant information form to the police.
But two unidentified men entered the house before the raid began, he said before being led away by policemen.
One Abdul Mazid said his son Masudur Rahman, a student of the madrasa, was among those in the house.
Mazid said he spoke to Masudur by mobile phone after law enforcers surrounded the house.
Referring to the conversation, he said four more people were inside the house. He identified them as Abu Zafar, Salauddin, Moshiur Rahman and Mujibur Rahman.
Salauddin was a student of Dhaka University, he said and added that Zafar was a Masters student, but could not name his institution.
Mazid also claimed that Masudur was trapped in the house. He claimed Zafar was his son’s private tutor and he went to the house to study
“My son is not involved in militancy,” he claimed.
RAB’s Mufti Mahmud said the law enforcers would try their best to catch the suspects alive.
The drive would resume in the morning, he said.
Six people were killed and at least 40 others, including the RAB intel chief, injured in two blasts in Sylhet on Mar 25. The blasts occurred near a house, Atia Mahal, where a commando operation was under way.
RAB’s Intelligence Wing chief Lt Col Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad was among those critically injured. He died after five days.
Four suspected militants were killed in suicide blasts in the house during the raid.
Later, 10 suspects were killed during similar raids on two houses in Moulvibazar. Police said the suspects were involved in the blasts in Sylhet.
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