Oct 18, 2016, at 07:15 pm
On October 8, 2016, in an anti-terrorism crackdown, 12 Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists were killed in Gazipur, Tangail and Dhaka Districts. Seven of them were killed in the Harinal area in Gazipur City under 'Operation Spate 8' conducted jointly by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team and Gazipur Police. Police recovered three small arms and locally-made sharp weapons from the site. Two others were killed during an operation by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at a JMB den in the Lebubagan area of Gazipur District. One AK 22 rifle, bomb making materials, one laptop, a locally-made sharp weapon and some bullets were recovered. In another raid carried out by RAB, two terrorists were killed in a three-storey building in the Mirzamath area of Tangail town. One pistol, one revolver, 11 sharp weapons, 12 bullets, two laptops and BDT 64,362 were recovered from the ground floor of the flat. Separately, in Dhaka District, Nazmul Haque aka Abdur Rahman, the financier of JMB died after he jumped from his flat on the fourth floor to flee during a raid by RAB in Savar upazila (sub-District). RAB recovered a firearm, ammunition, sharp weapons, a mobile jammer and a huge number of Jihadi books from his flat.