DHAKA, Sept. 3 (Xinhuanet) --The Bangladeshi government has worked out counter-terror moves after latest intelligence shows an unknown terrorist outfit may have been planning to explode potent bombs in public places in Dhaka, the Daily Star reported Friday.

    State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar Thursday held an emergency meeting with top officials of intelligence agencies, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). At the meeting, they decided to take both defensive and offensive measures to foil the plan and track down the terrorists.

    Intelligence earlier revealed the operatives of the outfit wereplanning to bomb private universities and other educational institutions, hospitals as well as shopping complexes in the city.

    The country's intelligence agencies obtained an audiotape of the conversations of the outfit operatives about their blueprint.

    The RAB and DMP have been assigned to carry out the counter-measures with support from the special branch and the detective branch of police.

    The concerning security officials will sit with the authoritiesof the organizations being put on the terrorists' "strike list", and suggest measures to ward off the planned attacks as part of the defensive policy.

    The government also asked RAB and the police to arrest suspectsin a bid to hunt down the terror group. Undercover police have been deployed at different places in the capital city to keep a close watch on the targets.

    The terror alert came only days after a series of grenade attacks on an main opposition Awami League's rally on Aug. 21, which left 20 killed and 300 injured.

    A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and four experts of the International Criminal Police Organization are now in the city to assist the government to probe into the grenade attack, while some more FBI experts and officials are expected to arrive the city soon to join the investigation. Enditem