Bangladesh: RAB officials arrest nine terrorists from Bandarban

Dhaka: The Rapid Action Battalion personnel of Bangladesh have arrested nine members of the terrorist group Jamaatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya from Bandarban, media reports said on Monday.

IBNS • 13 Mar 2023, 02:20 pm

Bangladesh: RAB officials arrest nine terrorists from Bandarban

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The arrested people included a training commander.

The RAB also seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition during an operation in Bandarban’s Tonkabaty on Sunday night, ANM Imran Khan, deputy director of RAB, said in a statement as quoted by bdnews24.

The existence of the new militant group came to the fore last year after the RAB started a search for a few young men who left home and went missing, the news portal reported.