The two detainees have been identified as Mohammad Quayyum Howladar, 32, and Md Selim, 32. The two were arrested in a raid in the Ruposhi Sluice Gate area of Rupganj Upazila on Wednesday morning, RAB-11 Battalion Captain Lt Col Quamrul Hassan told bdnews24.com. “Seven cocktail bombs, substantial amounts of bomb-making materials and militant propaganda,” he said. “They are members of the JMB Sarwar-Tamim Group.”RAB had arrested eight members of the ‘Sarwar-Tamim Group’ after raids in Narayanganj’s Shidhirganj and Comilla on Apr 6. The ‘Sarwar-Tamim Group’, formed by Sarwar Jahan, who took up the alias Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, and Canadian-Bangladeshi Tamim Chowdhury is believed to be the perpetrator of the 2016 Gulshan and Sholokia attacks.

Source: bd News24 May 03, 2017 07:07 UTC