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Ex-NSI staff held for renting house to JMB mastermind

Khulna IOJ leader arrested

STAR REPORT
Police arrested a former employee of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) and his two friends for renting a house to the mastermind of Gazipur blasts, Jewel, regional commander of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) while death and bomb threats from the banned organisation continued across the country yesterday.
Two of the eight-member foreign team of explosive experts
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visited the site of the recent suicide bombing in Chittagong yesterday and the police recovered a 3kg bomb planted inside a shop owned by a former municipality chairman of Netrakona Tuesday night while JMB threatened to kill former Awami League (AL) MP Abdul Latif Mirza in Sirajganj yesterday for speaking against the spate of bombings.
The police arrested Mohiuddin Faruqi, suspected regional commander of JMB's Khulna division also an Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) leader in the early hours of yesterday and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) raided a camp operated by Bangla Bhai at Bagmara in Rajshahi on Tuesday night.
GAZIPUR
A team of Gazipur police raided a five-storey under-construction house on road No 7 in Sector 11 of Uttara Model Town in Dhaka in search of former NSI junior officer Nesar Uddin on early morning yesterday.
They found Nesar and his friends Mizanur Rahman and Helali on the first floor of the building. The three run a buying house located in the building. “We arrested Nesar and his friends on charge of renting a house to Jewel who, we've learnt, made all the bombs blasted in Dhaka, Gazipur and Tangail,” Gazipur Superintendent of Police (SP) Atiqul Islam told The Daily Star last night.
KHULNA
Acting on information extracted from arrested JMB cadres, the police raided Msitripiara village yesterday and arrested Faruki, a suspected trainer of
the banned Harkatul Jihad (HuJi) also a divisional leader of JMB and a leader of IOJ. He was staying as a tenant in the house owned by Ashiqur Rahman. He was sent to Barisal for interrogation in suspicion of his connection to August 17 bombing in Barisal.
RAJSHAHI
Rab members raided a camp operated by Bangla Bhai at Bagmara on Tuesday night and picked up Korban, son of the owner of the house where the camp was situated.
According to local residents, the banned Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB) cadres beat Dipankar and a former army official Ershad to death in April last year at the camp. The house is owned by Ramzan Kaya. Local residents also saw JMJB men torturing Shahidullah and Abu Taleb in the adjacent garden and are of the opinion that they too were killed and their bodies dumped somewhere.
Rab also arrested Bachchu, father of JMB suicide bomber Bipul Abdur Rahman, from Kathalbaria village and eight others from adjacent villages. NETRAKONA
The police recovered a 3kg bomb from Machua Bazar at Satpai rail crossing area in Netrakona on Tuesday night.
Sumon, son of an AL leader Matiur Rahaman, found the bomb at the corner of their shop while he was closing it at 9:30pm.
The police and Rab rushed to the scene and recovered the bomb on information from Sumon.
The police failed to ascertain the
type and power of the bomb. Bomb experts will defuse it after inspection, they said.
SIRAJGANJ
An unknown caller who introduced himself as a JMB cadre phoned a former member of the parliament, Abdul Latif Mirza, on his cell-phone and threatened to blow him up with a suicide bombing if he continues to give speeches against JMB activities, reports BDNEWS.
CHAPAI NAWABGANJ
The deputy commissioner (DC) and SP of the district received death threats from JMB on Tuesday, according to a BDNEWS report.
“Get ready with shrouds and eat special dishes as you like. Bombs will be thrown into your building. The SP will also be blown up,” reads a letter sent to DC Nurul Islam on behalf of 'JMB Brotherhood'.
Saying that a probe is on into the matter, SP Rezaul Karim said, “Similar threats were issued earlier, but those were proved to be baseless.” CHITTAGONG
Two of the eight-member foreign team of explosive experts yesterday visited the site of suicide bomb attack that killed three people including a policeman and the bomber on the Chittagong Court Building premises on November 29.
Visiting the site, the experts took some photographs and examined evidences collected from the spot before flying back to Dhaka.
Meantime, the district administration yesterday started evicting makeshift structures that mushroomed around the court building at Parirpahar for security reasons.