CTTC chief Additional Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman briefs media after their raids in Narayanganj on Sunday Dhaka Tribune

The imam at a local mosque used the house as a hideout for Neo JMB militants, say police

Members of the police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit recovered a huge stash of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and bomb-making materials from a Neo JMB den in Araihazar area of Narayanganj on Sunday night.

Three IEDs were defused after the raid.

Another team of the CTTC arrested a suspected militant from Madanpur area of Kazipara in Narayanganj the same evening, Superintendent of Police Zayedul Alam confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.

The identity of the arrestee could not be known immediately.

The CTTC members cordoned off the house located beside Miabari mosque in Noagaon area of Araihazar in the afternoon, and took time to assess the situation and launch the operation.

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The law enforcers learnt about the house after they arrested the imam of the mosque, Abdullah Al Mamun, on Sunday.

They raided the house in Noagaon area and arrested the youth from Kazipara based on information given by Mamun during interrogation.

Abdullah Al Mamun

Police say Mamun is a key member of the Neo JMB militant group responsible for a number of killings and blasts since 2015. Mamun used the house as a den of militants to make bombs, said Rahamatullah Chowdhury Suman, additional deputy commissioner of CTTC bomb disposal unit. 

The bomb, found near a police box in Siddhirganj of Narayanganj in May, was manufactured in this house.

CTTC chief Additional Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman recently said that the militant organizations had no capability to carry out large-scale sabotage, as the CTTC had destroyed their networks.