5 Shibir men held with 18 bombs in Savar

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested five leader and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir along with 18 homemade bombs and anti-state leaflets in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, early Wednesday.

Abdur Rakib, Shibir president of Dhaka north unit is among the arrestees.

Acting on a tip-off, a squad of Rab-4 arrested the Jamaat men after raiding a house at Majidpur in Savar around 3.30am, Captain Tahsin Salehin told BSS.

Four other arrestees are: Savar municipality Shibir Secretary Alauddin Saquib, welfare secretary Fazal Ahmed, publicity secretary Mahmudul Hassan and office secretary Ashiqur Rahman.

Rab personnel seized 18 crude bombs and anti-state leaflets from their possession.