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3 held with cell phone bombs

Linked with handbag blast

Staff Correspondent
Detectives in the capital have arrested three men carrying bombs that could be activated by mobile phones.
The arrestees had links with the July 17 bomb explosion inside a woman’s handbag, according to Detective Branch of police.
Ayesha Siddique, an assistant programme officer of Bangladesh Computer Council, was injured when a bomb exploded in her handbag at Agargaon in Dhaka. Police suspected that the explosive had been activated by a mobile phone.
A team of DB police, acting on a tip-off, raided Kazipara in Mirpur and Bhashantek areas Saturday night and made the arrests, said Mashiur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of DB (west).
The arrestees are Sohrab Hossain Ujjal, 27, Khandakar FROM PAGE 20
Enamul Haque Mitul, 27, and SM Abu Hossain Sarowar, 32. A laptop, Tk 1.10 lakh and some bomb making materials were also seized from their possessions.
Sarowar is a mechanic and has expertise in making highly technological and sophisticated bombs activated by mobile phones.
Mashiur said that if the criminals had used a bomb with a higher destructive power, the damage would have been much more than that caused by the explosion in the handbag.
Criminals could use such bombs to carry out destructive activities, he said, expressing concern.
Following the blast on July 17, police detained Ayesha, her colleague Zubayer Ahmed and his friend Nurul Islam, and a case was filed with Agargaon Police Station.
Zubayer and Nurul had been taking part in Tabligh Jamaat activities, the DB official said, adding, however, that police had not found any militant or political connection with the detainees yet.
Zubayer had confessed to planting the explosive in Ayesha’s bag "to teach her a lesson," Mashiur said.
He quoted Sarowar as saying that he had sold the bomb to Mitul for Tk 25,000 and then Zubayer bought it from Mitul a day before the explosion. Sarowar had made three more such bombs for purposes of experimentation and exploded them to test their power.
Zubayer had told DB police that he had a crush on Ayesha and proposed to her. As she had been refusing to accept his overture, he chalked out a plan to exact revenge on her. He had shared this thought with his friend Nurul, who promised to help him.
Later, Nurul contacted Ujjal and Mitul. They planned to kill Ayesha by exploding the bomb, the DB official said.
Mitul and Ujjal via Nurul negotiated an agreement with Zubayer to sell the bomb for Tk 3 lakh. Zubayer paid Tk 1.6 lakh in advance and promised to pay the rest after the job was done, Mashiursaid.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday remanded Ujjal, Mitul and Sarowar for four days and Zubayer and Nurul for two days.
Earlier, Zubayer and Nurul were on remand for seven days after their arrests.