DHAKA: India has handed Bangladesh a list of 11 men suspected of plotting attacks including one targeting its prime minister, officials said yesterday, as the two countries tighten security cooperation against Islamist militants.
Indian security officials uncovered the plot against Sheikh Hasina last month after two members of a banned Bangladesh group were killed in an explosion while making bombs in India’s West Bengal state just over the border from Bangladesh.
The men were believed to be members of the outlawed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh who were using India as a safe haven to plan the attacks.
A team headed by the chief of India’s National Investigations Agency, the main counter-terrorism arm, held talks with Bangladeshi officials in Dhaka and handed over the list of suspects thought to be hiding there, Mufti Mahmud Khan, an official of the Rapid Action
Battalion said. Reuters
