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Islamist militants regrouping: report

DHAKA: Dodging the ongoing crackdown in the country after the August 17 countrywide bomb blasts, a good number of Islamist militants are regrouping in the Tangail district, which has already stood out as a hotbed of militants.

A lot of strangers are seen wandering in the remote areas in the district, some 98 km northwest of Dhaka, and ``the strangers seem embarrassed when locals want to know their identities,'' The Daily Star reported on Saturday.

Hundreds of members of the banned Islamic outfit the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who planned the August 17 blasts which left three people killed and over 150 others injured, have been arrested across the country and they confessed that they took military training in the isolated hilly areas and in a number of madrasas (Islamic schools) in Tangail.

The police claimed that they have no information that militants are hiding in the remote areas in the district. — Xinhua

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