Tangail:  Two siblings, who were held during a drive at a suspected militant hideout at Elenga Masina area of Kalihati upazila in Tangail, were planning to carry out acts of sabotage by using drone, claimed Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).

The detainees are Masum, in his thirties, and Khokon, around 25 years old, son of the building owner Abul Hossain Chishtia.

RAB-12 Commanding Officer (CO) Selim Mohammad Jahangir on Tuesday morning told the journalist, the two brothers are involved with militancy for a long time. They are skilled in computer and made modern drone. They were planning to carry out an act of sabotage using the drone.

Being tipped off, the members of RAB-12 cordoned off the house suspecting as militant den at about 11:00pm on Monday. The two siblings are active members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), said RAB.

RAB-12 Commanding Officer (CO) Selim Mohammad Jahangir said they were informed that a group of militants were staying at the house of Syed Abul Hassan Chishtia at Kalihati upazila on Monday afternoon. Being informed, a team of Tangail RAB-12 cordoned off the house in the evening. Later, the law enforcers conducted drive at the house and held Masum and Khokon at about 3:00am.

According to the information shared by the two brothers during primary interrogation, RAB officials also conducted drive at a suspected militant den in Dhaka’s Mirpur, said the RAB official.

RAB officials recovered modern drone, several machetes, Chinese axe, and bomb making materials from the hideout, after conducting a seven and half hours-long drive at the house of Abul Hossain Chishtia at the village of Masinda.