8 detained from suspected Rajshahi militant hideout
Dulal Abdullah, Rajshahi:>>>
Police say there could be a huge stockpile of suicidal vests and explosives in the house.
Police have detained eight members of a family, including a primary school teacher, from a house believed to be used by militants as a hideout in Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila.
Four children of the family were rescued and taken into police custody after Sunday midnight raid at Dangarpara village under Panchandar union.
A pistol, bullets and two suicidal vests were recovered from the house which had been raided and cordoned off since Sunday night based on Bogra Detective Branch police’s information.
The detainees are – house owner Ramjan Ali, 55, and his wife Ayesha Bibi; their elder son Ibrahim and his wife Morjina; younger son Israfil Alam, 26, and his spouse Haresa Khatun; Ramjan’s daughter Hawa Begum, 20, and her husband Rabiul, 27.
The rescued children are Ibrahim’s three daughters – Tamanna, 8, Taskira, 4, and seven-month-old Tanshira – and Rabiul’s three-month-old daughter.
Ramjan teaches at Gourangipur Government primary school, Ibrahim is a fertiliser trader, Israfil is a homeopathic doctor and Rabiul is a carpenter.
Rajshahi’s Additional Police Superintendent Sumit Chowdhury told the Dhaka Tribune that the family had kept itself isolated and even used to offer Eid prayers at home.
Tanore police’s Sub-Inspector Rayhan Ali said: “We suspect there could be a stockpile of suicidal vests and explosives in the house. We are thoroughly searching the house.”
