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  New terror outfit targets Hindus

New terror outfit targets Hindus

PTI
Published : Aug 21, 2016, 5:49 am IST
Updated : Aug 21, 2016, 5:49 am IST

A new militant outfit, aligned to the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), has prepared a list of local Hindus and secularists, and finalised plans to kill a Hindu doctor, police said.

A new militant outfit, aligned to the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), has prepared a list of local Hindus and secularists, and finalised plans to kill a Hindu doctor, police said.

The Ansar Rajshahi outfit has finalised plans to kill Nirendranath Sarker. The members communicate with each other through a secured messaging application, police said. The outfit has prepared a list of local Hindus and secularists who they plan to target.

Absconding JMB leader Shariful Islam Khalid, a Rajshahi University student who was involved in the murder of his teacher Rezaul Karim in April this year, is one of the organisers of the Ansar Rajshahi, the Dhaka Tribune reported.

They came to know about the outfit after questioning two cousins of Shariful, Aminul Islam Rumi and Enamul Huq Sabuj.

The duo were arrested on Monday night and produced before a Rajshahi court the following day with a five-day remand prayer for each.

The hearing may take place next week, according to court sources. During interrogation, Rumi disclosed the names of three of his associates in Ansar Rajshahi.

Since last year, the JMB members have killed at least seven Hindu priests across the country while threatened several dozen Hindus and Christians with death. The outfit also launched attacks on three Christians in the northern districts. Two of them were killed.

Known as a stronghold of outlawed JMB, Baghmara saw a deadly bomb attack on a local Ahmadiyya mosque on December 26 last year that killed the JMB suicide attacker and injured 10 devotees.

Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka