Bangladesh: Two Neo JMB members arrested
Dhaka. Mar 22 (JEN): Security forces have arrested two “Neo JMB” members, including Hadisur Rahman Sagar, who allegedly supplied bombs during the 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka, media reports said on Thursday.
At least 20 people were killed in the attack.
The deceased included 17 foreign nationals.
The other arrestee Akram Hosen Niloy of Kishorganj is the alleged mastermind of the Hotel Olio International blast in Dhaka’s Panthapath on August 15 last year, sources at Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told The Daily Star newspaper of the country.
The arrested people will be produced before the court, police sources told the newspaper.
Terrorists attacked the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on July 1, 2016.
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