Police arrested five suspected activists of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from different areas of Bagmara upazila in Rajshahi on early Saturday.

The identities of the arrestees could not be known yet, reports UNB.

Tipped off, a team of police conducted the separate drives in different areas of the upazila at the dead of night and arrested the five, said Bagmara Police Station Officer-in-charge Nasim Ahmed.

Further details of the drive are still awaited.