In Assam, 6 held for ties with Bangladesh Al-Qaeda

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Updated At : 12:23 PM Apr 17, 2022 IST

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Barpeta (Assam), April 16

Six suspected terrorists having links with an Al-Qaeda network in Bangladesh were arrested in Barpeta district of Assam, the police said on Saturday.

SP Amitava Sinha said the six suspects having links with the ‘Al-Qaeda in Indian Sub continent’ (AQIS) were nabbed from a madrassa at Howly on Friday.

“We arrested the six persons on the basis of information provided by a jihadi who was arrested on March 4,” he told the media here.

Those arrested, all natives of Barpeta, were having direct links with Mohammed Suman alias Saiful Islam alias Harun Rashid, who is a member of AQIS, Sinha said.

On March 4, five persons, including a Bangladeshi national, were apprehended for their alleged links with a suspected terror group of Ansarul Islam, based in Bangladesh with affiliation to the AQIS, in Barpeta district. —

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