Six terror suspects with Al-Qaeda community hyperlinks nabbed in Assam

By PTI

BARPETA: Six suspected terrorists having hyperlinks with an Al-Qaeda community in Bangladesh have been arrested in Barpeta district of Assam, police stated on Saturday.

Superintendent of Police Amitava Sinha stated the six suspects having hyperlinks with the ‘Al-Qaeda in Indian Sub continent’ (AQIS) have been nabbed from a madrassa at Howly on Friday.

“We arrested the six persons on the basis of information provided by a jihadi who was arrested on March 4,” he stated at a press convention right here.

Those arrested, all natives of Barpeta, have been having direct hyperlinks with Mohammed Suman alias Saiful Islam alias Harun Rashid, who’s a member of AQIS, Sinha stated.

On March 4, 5 folks, together with a Bangladeshi nationwide, have been apprehended for his or her alleged hyperlinks with a suspected terror group of Ansarul Islam, based mostly in Bangladesh with affiliation to the AQIS, in Barpeta district.