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JMB had sent IEDs to Assam targeting BTAD: Police

| | Dec 21, 2014, at 12:40 am
Guwahati, Dec 20 (IBNS): Jamat-Ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) sent several IEDs in Assam targeting the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) ahead of the Burdwan blast in West Bengal, police said on Saturday.
Assam police IGP S N Singh said that JMB had sent IEDs to two lower Assam districts before Oct 2.
 
"The IEDs were stored in Nalbari and Baska district in lower Assam. JMB members had delivered the IEDs to two persons in the districts, " the IGP said.
 
"JMB member Sahanur Alom revealed that the IEDs came to Assam for a major explosion,"  the top police official said.
 
Meanwhile, a court in Guwahati had sent Sahanur Alom and Nur Jamal Hogue to 14 days judicial custody.
 
Assam police arrested Sahanur on December 5 from Mukalmua area in Nalbari district and Nur Jamal Hogue from Salbari area in Baska on December 19.
 
Assam police had arrested at least 12 persons in connection with JMB and the Burdwan blast.
 
 
 
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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