DHAKA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday arrested a key member of a banned militant outfit in capital Dhaka.
An RAB spokesperson who did not like to be named said Mushfiq Martin Jeni is an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) expert of Neo-JMB (an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh) blamed for the deadly attack on a Spanish cafe in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan on July 1, 2016.
He said the arrest was made during a raid in his home in the capital on Wednesday morning.
According to the official, the militant who belonged to the "Tamim Chowdhury-Sarwar Jahan group" of Neo-JMB, was held with many improvised explosive and remote control devices.
Bangladeshi police have reportedly so far hunted down and killed at least 40 militants linked to the cafe attack.
