Gazipur: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claimed to bust a suspected training camp of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the College-gate area of Gazipur’s Tongi in the early hours of Thursday.

RAB officials also held four JMB members including Mahmudul Hassan, the southern region chief of the banned militant outfit, and recovered huge arms and ammunition from the spot.

The other arrestees are Ashikul Akbar Abed, Nazmus Sakib, and Shariyat Ullah Shubho.

Mahamudul Hassan, who is also a student of Fishery and Marine Bioscience at Jessore University of Science and Technology, got involved in JMB in 2005, reports UNB.

He was responsible for fund collection and recruitment of members till 2014.

Besides, Ashikul Akbar, a student of Rangpur Prime Medical College, used to conduct training of the members.

It has been believed primarily that the detainees were taking preparation to commit violence act, said RAB.

The RAB media wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan said acting on tip-off the law-enforcers found a JMB training camp in the fourth floor of the a six-storey building at Tongi’s College-gate Moktar road area at about 4:00am.

RAB seized bombs, bomb making materials, foreign arms, a machete, few knives, around 100 bullets, and some propaganda leaflets from the suspected JMB hideout, said Mufti Mahmud Khan.

RAB officials said the arrestees had been conducting militant training there renting the flat.

The arrestees used to live at the house as tenants by concealing their identity and engaged in plot for carrying out sabotage, said RAB.