Arms, ammo 'suggest' JMB men's escape route
Police recovered a plastic bag full of firearms, bullets and bombs from Ghatail upazila of Tangail this morning which they believe were dumped by fleeing JMB militants snatched from police custody in Mymensingh Sunday.
Locals found the sack around 11:00am in a bush at Garobazar area of Ghatail, which is 15 kilometres off Trishal upazila where the prison van carrying the JMB militants was ambushed couple of days ago.
"In the bag, there were six pistols, eight magazines, 41 bullets and four crude bombs," Fazlul Kabir, officer-in-charge of Ghatail Police Station, told The Daily Star.
The firearms and ammunitions might have been left by the militants of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the OC said.
“The recovered arms, ammunitions and bombs will be sent to the experts of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to make sure that whether those were used during the Sunday's operation,” Hasibul Alam, additional superintendent of police in Tangail, told our correspondent.
The recovery came two days after an armed gang, in a well-orchestrated plan, ambushed a prison van and snatched away Rakib Hasan Russell alias Hafez Mahmud, Salauddin Ahmed alias Salehin, and Zahidul Islam alias "Boma" Mizan in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh.
Five hours into the snatching, police managed to recapture Rakib from Sakhipur upazila of Tangail.
Rakib was killed in a shootout with police after 14 hours of his recapture.
The law enforcers have yet to track down the absconding JMB Salehin and "Boma" Mizan -- who face death penalty and life term imprisonment respectively for militant activities.
Meanwhile, police arrested Zakaria Islam and Mohammad Rasel from Sakhipur upazila hours after the ambush for their involvement with the incident.
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