Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims one of the suspected suicide squad members arrested yesterday in Demra in the capital is a student of economics at Jahangirnagar University (JU).

Meantime, law enforcers seized two powerful bombs in Patuakhali and Sirajganj, yesterday while a bomb hoax was reported in Chittagong.

JMB threatened to blow up the Islamic University and Dinajpur Government College.

The Rab in a raid arrested the alleged suicide bombers Deen Islam alias Raju, 20, and Sabuj alias Washim, 24, in Gopalbagh in Demra, reports our JU correspondent.

The elite force launched the raid following information gleaned from JMB suicide squad members arrested in Chittagong in November, Rab sources said.

Sabuj, son of Abdus Salam, who hails from Kaliakair in Gazipur, is a JU student of the 2001-2002 academic session, while Raju is the son of Golam Rasul of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur. They have been handed over to Rab-3 in Dhaka for interrogation.

Sabuj joined the JMB in January and Raju in the first week of November this year.

Their bosses had sent them to Dhaka with assignments to visit different schools, madrasas and houses to invite people to join JMB and collect subscriptions from group members.

"Sabuj is a trained member of the JMB suicide squad," claimed a Rab press release.

TANGAIL ARRESTS
Police arrested 13 suspected JMB cadres including a suicide squad member, who fled during Friday's bomb-making materials seizure, in Tangail, Jamalpur and Sherpur since Thursday, reports our Tangail Correspondent.

Meer Suman, 20, who narrowly escaped arrest in Tangail on Friday, was arrested in Chaualee in Sirajganj yesterday. His father Meer Solaiman and two other militants held during the seizure were placed on a four-day remand yesterday.

Among other arrestees, eight were held in Tangail, a Northern University student in Jamalpur and two in Sherpur.

The arrestees in Tangail include an imam of Taktarchala Purba Para Mosque and four students of Mirzapur SK Pilot High School.

The police arrested two suspected JMB cadres with over 100 books on jihad and leaflets yesterday in Sherpur town.

Moreover, police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher in Lalmonirhat suspecting his link to the August 17 blasts, writes BDNEWS.

BOMBS RECOVERY
The Rab recovered a bomb from a grocery shop on Dattabari Road near Sirajganj Government College on Friday night, reports BDNEWS.

Police yesterday found a powerful bomb inside the telephone distribution box near the sadar upazila land office in Patuakhali, reports our Patuakhali Correspondent.

Gazipur police yesterday recovered a bomb from Rajbagan in the district, writes our Staff Correspondent. Meanwhile, a number of people identifying them as JMB members called two teachers of Kazi Azimuddin College and Rani Bilashmoni Government Boys' High School and threatened to blow up the institutions if they were not closed.

In Chittagong, the Rab recovered a bomb, which finally appeared to be a hoax, reports our Staff Correspondent in Chittagong.

On information, the Rab raided the area and found a sweetmeat box tied with red tape. The box had no explosives inside.

MORE JMB THREATS
JMB again threatened the examination controller of Islamic University yesterday to blow up the university in Kushtia if scheduled examinations were not cancelled, reports A Correspondent from IU.

JMB in a letter yesterday threatened to blow up the administrative building of Dinajpur Government College in three days if the authorities failed to release Tareque Rahman, a student of mathematics, writes our Dinajpur Correspondent.

Tareque, a second year student of the college, was arrested for his suspected links to JMB.

JMB yesterday threatened to kill Swechchhasebak League convenor of Kawkhali upazila Niyat Ahmed over cellphone for organising a procession against the outfit, writes our Pirojpur Correspondent.

Law enforcers yesterday thoroughly searched the Chittagong University (CU) Arts Faculty building after an anonymous letter sent to the chairman of Arabic and Islamic studies department threatened to blow up the building, our CU Correspondent adds.

Keshabpur police arrested a madrasa student on Friday night, writes our Jessore Correspondent.