Bangladesh: RAB officials arrest nine terrorists from Bandarban

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By  India Blooms News Service   Mar 13, 2023

Dhaka: The Rapid Action Battalion personnel of Bangladesh have arrested nine members of the terrorist group Jamaatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya from Bandarban, media reports said on Monday.

The arrested people included a training commander.

The RAB also seized a huge cache of arms and ammunition during an operation in Bandarbans Tonkabaty on Sunday night, ANM Imran Khan, deputy director of RAB, said in a statement as quoted by bdnews24.

The existence of the new militant group came to the fore last year after the RAB started a search for a few young men who left home and went missing, the news portal reported.