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‘Science Lab police bomb attackers to be arrested soon’


Bangladeshpost
Published : 03 Sep 2019 08:40 PM | Updated : 02 Sep 2020 12:45 AM

Miscreants, who carried out attack on police near Science Lab crossing last week, would be identified and arrested soon, Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and Chief of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Md Monirul Islam said on Monday.

“We will be able to trace out the mystery behind the attack on the law enforcing agencies through proper investigation as we had previously unveiled all the mysteries of similar militant attacks committed across the country,” he told BSS. Monir said that the law-enforcing agencies has unearthed the clues and gathered relevant information about most of the recent killings and attacks on bloggers in the country.

A bomb was hurled targeting police to get big media coverage but the bomb did not carry enough explosives. The militia also lacked network to launch any major attacks. The CTTC chief said that investigation team found evidence of the involvement of ex-Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) cadres, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami and its activists as well as other ultra-militant outfits in such crimes.

Describing formation of militant outfits in the country, he said that the ex-Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) cadres, Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Neo JMB members are trying to re-organize but it would be in vain. Monirul said, “A good number of arrestees involved in the killings of bloggers were found to be former and incumbent members of Chhatra Shibir, many of them have direct link to the banned militant outfit, Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) and other militant groups.”

Replying to a query on IS and site intelligence, Monirul said, “No IS network or its member is in the country, but site intelligence is a site as it upload statements on its site, whatever it is true or false.” Talking about the blast at Science Lab, the additional commissioner said that bombs were hurled targeting police as the law enforcing agencies foiled their previous activities and arrested them. “Detective Branch (DB) and Police are trying to find out if there was any link with the recent Malibagh and Gulistan blasts.” he said.