DHAKA: Bangladesh anti-terrorism police are questioning an ex-soldier, arrested after a manhunt that began last month following warnings of attacks targeting airports, parliament and places of worship, police said Saturday.
The suspect, named as 23-year-old Mohammad Rahed Hossain Mahed, “had taken refuge in a hideout near the Indian border”, said Md Moniruzzaman, head of the police station at Moulvibazar, a northeastern district. Counterterrorism officers were questioning Mahed, who police said was linked to a radical Islamist group.
“The arrested individual is a dismissed army personnel member and was inspired by the ideology of the banned outfit Dawlatul Islam Neo-JMB,” a police statement late Friday said.
