Staff Reporter
Two more leaders of banned Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Isam (HUJI) and also the suspects of the August 21 grenade attack who were arrested from the city’s Mohammadpur area were taken on a five-day remand yesterday.
Mohammadpur police said that they were arrested from a mess house in connection with the August 21 grenade attack at the Awami League rally in 2004 that killed at least 24 AL leaders and activists, including Ivy Rahman, and injured over 200 others. They were identified as HUJI leaders Maulana Mohammad Manir Hossain, and Maulana Mohammad Idris. [Read more]