The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India has arrested a
Myanmar national from Hyderabad in connection with the Burdwan blast case.
According to several Indian media, arrestee Khalid Mohammed, 21,
was living in the Telangana capital with fake identity documents.
Quoting NIA sources, Zee News reported that Khalid has links with
Tahreek-e-Taliban and is an IED expert. "He is also said to be
involved in running terror camps in bordering areas of Bangladesh and
Myanmar," the report claimed.
It stated that Jihadi literature related to ISIS was also
recovered from the arrestee. Khalid's arrests comes at a time when
an NIA team is in Bangladesh to probe the terror trail linked with the blast in
Burdwan district of West Bengal.
On Monday, the home ministry of Bangladesh formed a high-power
committee to liaise with the visiting delegation of NIA in light of allegations
that Bangladeshi nationals were involved in the Burdwan explosion last
month.
The Indian agency is investigating jihadist networks following a
bomb blast on October 2 at a house in Bardhaman town in India’s West Bengal
state.
The house reportedly had been turned into a factory to make
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) by militants belonging to banned Islamist
outfit, Jama’at-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Two suspected
militants died in the explosion that rocked
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