Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Unit Chief Monirul Islam today said the Jamaat-Shibir activists are engaged in carrying out attacks after being angered by the police actions.

“Many Jamaat-Shibir activists have joined militant group “Neo-JMB” and they have anger on police. Besides, international militant outfits are also instructing their followers to carry out attacks on law enforcers,” Monirul said.

Monirul was talking to reporters at his office in Dhaka over the attack on police at Science Laboratory intersection on Saturday.

He said most of the leaders and operatives of the Neo-JMB have either been arrested or killed in the drives by the law enforcers.

After being angered by the police actions, the Neo-JMB men have targeted the police forces, Monirul told reporters responding to a query.     

Analysing the online literature of the “Neo-JMB”, the TCCT found that most of the present leaders and activists of the outfit are Islamic Chhatra Shibir members, he said.

Responding to another query, Monirul said the militant outfits have recently planted bombs in front of two police boxes in Dhaka those did not explode.    

The facts and investigation reports of such attacks prove that the police forces have become their target.

On August 8, the CTTC unit arrested five “New JMB” members who are self-radicalised and work like a “wolf pack”.

Officials at that time said that the group was involved in planting two powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) from near traffic police boxes at Khajurbagan and Paltan areas.

On April 29, two traffic police constables and a community traffic policeman were injured in a blast in Gulistan.

In another incident, two people, including a female police officer, were injured after a bomb went off near a police pickup in the capital’s Malibagh intersection On May 26.

Two policemen were injured in the latest attack at Science Laboratory traffic police box.

Similar IEDs were recovered from Khajurbagan and Paltan area on July 23.  

CTTC chief Monirul Islam said they are so-called IS. We did not find any evidence that they have any organisational link with the real IS.