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DHAKA, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested five including three top members of a banned militant outfit in capital Dhaka.
RAB spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan confirmed the arrest of the militants of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) at a press briefing in Dhaka on Thursday .
He said those arrested included a trainer, an explosive expert and a finance coordinator of JMB which carried out a series of bombings in 63 out of the country's 64 districts, including capital Dhaka on Aug. 17, 2005, leaving two people dead and 150 others injured.
Hundreds of JMB leaders and activists were rounded up while six top leaders of the group, including Shaikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged in 2007.
Against the backdrop of a new wave of militancy rising in the country in the recent years, Bangladesh law enforcers stepped up drive aimed at dismantling all terrorist outfits and their networks in the country. Enditem
