Eight militants caught with arms, explosives in Dhaka

Eight Islamist militants, including three who were trained to be suicide bombers, have been nabbed in the Bangladesh capital and huge quantities of arms, ammunition, explosives and propaganda material were seized from them, authorities said. This is the second major haul in a month after a madrassa (Islamic seminary) funded by a British NGO was found to house similar material on Bhola island in the south. The eight militants belong to the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The haul in Khilkhet locality by the elite paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) yielded bomb detonators, batteries and books and CDs on jihad, a newspaper said Monday.