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Grenades brought to kill me

Says Khaleda as Rab nabs 2 JMB men; also seizes bomb

Staff Correspondent
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday recovered three improvised hand grenades from Nabiabad village in Devidwar upazila of Comilla, around an hour after BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia addressed an election rally four km away.
The Rab men also’arrested two operatives of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and seized a T Okg bomb from a JMB den at Nabiabad village.
The former prime minister addressed the rally at around 12:30pm at Chandina upazila headquarters.
The BNP chief at a rally in Laxmipur later alleged that the grenades seized had been brought to assassinate her, and disrupt the forthcoming national election.
Besides, her party announced countrywide protest rallies and demonstrations today. Rab-11 arrested a JMB operative at about 1:30pm at Chandina Bazar and another at Nabiabad in nearby Devidwar upazila of the district around 3:00pm.
Additional Director General of Rab Col Gulzar Uddin Ahmed told The Daily Star, "On information, Rab personnel arrested JMB operative Masud at Chandina Bazar. Following his confession, we arrested another JMB man, Nayeem, raiding a den at Nabiabad."
"Soon after the Rab personnel reached near the den, three JMB men came out of a house and threw three grenades at them. The grenades did not explode," Col Gulzar continued.
"Rab men retaliated with gunshots and arrested Nayeem, who was bullet hit. But two others fled the scene," headded.
Contacted, Rab-11 commander Lt Col Mohammad Sazzad Hossain said the three grenades were recovered from the spot. They 1 ater seized a 1 Okg bomb from the JMB den.
Rab personnel were trying to recover two hand grenades the JMB operatives threw into a pond wtiile fleeing, he said.
Both Gulzar and Sazzad declined to link the recovery of grenades and arrest of the JMB men with security of the BNP chief since the incidents are being investigated.
They said the indents took place more than an hour after the BNP chairperson left the rally.
Rab continued its operation to arrest the JMB men who escaped and receiver more explosives, they said.
Meanwhile, the recovery of grenades and arrest of two JMB operatives prompted BNP to organise countrywide protest rallies and demonstrations today.
Nazrul Islam Khan, joint secretary of the party, in a press statement urged the government to strengthen security of Khaleda Zia.
He also called upon people to join the protest rallies and demonstrations.
KHALEDA'S REACTION
At an election campaign rally on Raipur Merchant Academy premises in Laxmipur. Khaleda said, "Failingtosendmeinexile, they are now trying to eliminate me.
“Seeing the mass support for sheaf of paddy IBNP s electoral symbol), a certain quarter lost their senses,’ she said. "I shall not bow down to any conspiracy. ..My efforts to restore democracy and civil rights will continue.’