5 more Jama’atul Ansar members arrested: Rab
Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested five members of a "newly surfaced militant group" including its recruiter and financer from Jatrabari and Keraniganj area yesterday (October 9, 2022).
Among the arrestees, three including recruiter Habibullah alias Habib (32) recently left their homes, Khandaker Al Moin, director of Rab's legal and Media wing director, told a press briefing at Rab media centre today.
Habib, the imam of Quba Mosque in Cumilla, recruited some local youths to militant group "Jama'atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya" and inspired seven of them to leave their homes on August 23, he said.
The other arrestees are: Neyamat Ullah (43), a teacher at a Cumilla madras; Hossain (22), an electrician; Rakib Hasnat alias Niloy (28), a delivery boy in a currier service; and Saiful Islam (19), a meson.
Like Habibulla, Rakib and Saiful also left their homes recently, Moin said.
Quoting the arrestees, the Rab director said more than 50 youths left homes in last two years to join the militant group.
Families of some of them knew that their loved ones went abroad as they sent money to their families. Actually, they are working as the members or supervisors of the militant outfit, he added.
"We came to know that they (the youths) are being trained under the supervision of some separatist groups in Chittagong Hill Tracts," he said different agencies are working to trace them out.
Earlier, at a press conference on October 6, Rab claimed to have arrested seven people, including four youths who went missing from their homes in Cumilla and elsewhere.
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