Rapid Action Battalion News

A top leader of the banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) outfit was arresed from a hideout in Dhaka by Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).

RAB is setting up the 15th battalion – RAB 15 based out of Cox’s Bazar, where Rohingya refugee camps have been set up.

At least six persons, including two police officials, were killed and over 40 were injured in two explosions on Saturday near a militant hideout in Sylhet city, some 240 km from capital Dhaka, local police said.

A suspected militant was on Saturday shot dead by security forces when he tried to cross a checkpoint run by Bangladesh's elite Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka, a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a RAB camp here.

A man blew himself up on Friday at a camp for Bangladesh`s elite security forces, wounding two others, in an apparent botched suicide attack.

A man, suspected to be a suicide bomber, was killed in a blast outside a police camp in Bangladesh`s capital Dhaka.

A suicide bomber on Friday blew himself up inside a huge camp of Bangladesh's elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion here, injuring two security personnel.

Nine foreigners and a Bangladeshi woman were detained in a raid here for possessing counterfeit foreign currency and fake note-making materials, police said on Monday.

Five Bangladesh militants, most from wealthy, liberal families, stormed an upmarket restaurant on July 1 and murdered customers before they were gunned down.

Bangladesh`s elite security force said Thursday it had arrested a top regional head of the homegrown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered.

The country`s elite security force, the Rapid Action Battalion, published the list on Facebook around midnight and called on citizens to report the whereabouts of the missing.

They had sought presidential clemency admitting their guilt.