BSF and BGB officers exchange sweets on Id ul-Fitr at the Indo-Bangladesh border at Ragna, in Dharmanagar sub-division of Tripura. (Photo: PTI)
BSF and BGB officers exchange sweets on Id ul-Fitr at the Indo-Bangladesh border at Ragna, in Dharmanagar sub-division of Tripura. (Photo: PTI)
The elite National Security Guard (NSG) will send a four-member team of counter-terror experts from its National Bomb Data Centre to Bangladesh to study and analyse the recent terror attack at a posh restaurant in Dhaka and explosions at an Id prayer gathering in Kishoreganj.
The Bomb Data Centre is the only agency in the country that maintains a detailed record and analysis of all bomb explosions and terror-related incidents in the country to help investigating agencies.
The information collected by the Bomb Data Centre, which operates out of the NSG’s Manesar headquarters, shares information with investigating agencies after a terror incident to probe which terrorist group may have carried it out, based on the modus operandi and the nature of explosives used.
NSG counter-terror and explosive experts have been visiting “friendly countries” to analyse terror-related incidents there as well.
“We will compare the Dhaka incident and the Id explosion with the terror incidents that took place in India to assess whether there is any similarity. If this is the case, then it would mean that cadres of Indian terror groups and those in Bangladesh, like Jamaat-ul-Mujhaideen, may well have been trained by the same outfit,” a senior intelligence official said.
Sources said Indian agencies were already in touch with their Bangladeshi counterparts on the recent incidents of terror and if the NSG has any additional information, the inputs would be shared with agencies in Dhaka during its visit. The National Security Guard team, which is expected to reach Dhaka on Friday, will be there for at least three days.
Terror groups hurled crude bombs and engaged in a shootout with the police in Kishoreganj on Thursday leaving a policeman and a terrorist dead during an Id prayer. The latest incident comes after last week’s deadly attacks in Dhaka which killed 22 people mainly foreigners, including an Indian girl.
