IGP: Four militants nabbed in anti-terror raids, including Rohingya who threatened to assassinate Bangladesh PM

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09 July 2019 

BY G. PRAKASH

 

A 54-year-old Filipino electrician was among those detained for terrorism offences. — Picture courtesy of PDRM

 

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Bukit Aman Special Branch’s Counter-Terrorism (E8) division rounded up four terror suspects belonging to different extremist group, including a Rohingya man who had threatened to assassinate Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador in a statement today said the Rohingya man, 41, was picked up in Sungai Petani, Kedah on June 24.

Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar police alerted after New Zealand attack

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Muktadir Rashid | Published: Mar 16,2019


The police on Friday alerted their units in Cox’s Bazar and tightened checkpoints in the capital’s Gulshan and Baridhara diplomatic areas after the extremist attack in mosques in New Zealand that left at least 49 people, including three Bangladeshis, killed.

The police officials said that they always kept their force on alert but additional precaution was prescribed as soon as the shooting incident in mosques was reported in the media.