Over 5,300 arrested in Bangladesh in anti-terror crackdown

June 12, 2016 18:08

More than 5,300 criminal suspects, including 85 militants, have been arrested in Bangladesh as part of an intensified crackdown on Islamists to halt a wave of brutal attacks on minorities and secular writers, police

said today.

As many as 2,128 people have been arrested on the second day of a nationwide anti-terror crackdown, police said, adding 48 of them belonged to various militant outfits.

Altogether 5,320 people have been arrested, including 85 militants, since Friday morning, when the drive kicked off.

Yesterday 3,192 people had been arrested.

Bangladesh launched the drive after a high-level meeting held by Inspector General AKM Shahidul Hoque on Thursday. The anti-militant drive involved the paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh and the elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion.

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