Five outlaws held with arms, bombs
Rapid Action Battalion arrested five top Janajuddho cadres including a regional leader and recovered firearms, ammunition and explosives from them at a hotel in Chuadanga Wednesday night.
The arrestees are Sahanur Joardar, 33, regional leader of Shailkupa, Miron, 25, Faruq, 22, Selim 38 and Saiful, 27 of Shailkupa, Jhenidah.
Tipped off, a team of Rab-6 led by Maj Shafiqur Rahman raided the hotel near Chuadanga railway station at around 9:30pm. Sensing presence of the law enforcers, the activists fired a shot and blasted a bomb inside the hotel, Rab said.
Rab later surrounded and arrested them and recovered three pistols, four bombs and 30 bullets from their possession, sources said, adding that they also seized two motorbikes used by the outlaws.
Rab said the men came to hold meeting with Janajuddho activists of Chuadanga and adjacent areas in a bid to reorganise the outfit, one of the factions of Purbo Banglar Communist Party.
They were organising under the command of new Janajuddho leader Abdul Kuddus, nephew of Abdur Rashid Tapan alias Dada Tapan, sources said.
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