Four suspected Neo-JMB militants surrender in Bangladesh

DHAKA, July 17 (Xinhua) — Four suspected militants surrendered following a raid on a hideout of a banned Islamist outfit in Ashulia on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Sunday, reports Xinhua.
The members of Neo-JMB surrendered after police cordoned off the house, suspecting it to be a militant den, RAB spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan told journalists.
He said all the detainees are suspected members of Neo-JMB, an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
According to the RAB spokesman, the militants also belonged to the “Tamim Chowdhury-Sarwar Jahan group” of Neo-JMB blamed for the deadly attack on the Spanish cafe in Dhaka‘s diplomatic enclave Gulshan on July 1, 2016.
Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-Canadian and Sarwar Jahan, identified as Neo JMB chief who was killed during a police raid on Oct. 8 last year, have been blamed as the masterminds of the brutal attack on the Spanish cafe, which killed 22 people mostly foreigners.
Bangladeshi police have so far hunted down and killed dozens of militants linked to the cafe attack, including Tamim Chowdhury who was killed in a police raid on Aug. 27 last year.
JMB carried out a series of bombings in 63 out of the country’s 64 districts, including the capital Dhaka on Aug. 17, 2005, leaving two people dead and 150 others injured.
Hundreds of JMB leaders and activists were rounded up while six top leaders of the group, including Shaikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged in 2007.  Enditem