Ashulia raid after month-long tracking: Rab

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) tracked and located for a month the four suspected militants, who surrendered in Ashulia of Savar today.

The owner of the house informed the elite force about his tenants’ suspicious activities a month back when they rented house, Mufti Mahmud Khan, legal and media wing director of Rab, told journalists at a press briefing this afternoon following the surrender. 

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After gathering enough information about their link to militancy, Rab conducted today’s raid in the area, the Rab official said.

One of the arrestees rented a portion of the single-storey tin-shed house for a monthly Tk 2,500 identifying himself as a garments employee, he said quoting the owner of the house.

The owner of the house is now in Rab custody, our Savar correspondent said.