Police arrested 11 people, suspected to members of the banned militant organisation Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), in a raid in the Uttara area of the capital last night.

Police say that the JMB members were using a house in Uttara as a base for carrying out acts of subversion and violence. Police also say that they also sized a large quantity of books on Jihad and some bomb-making material in the raid.