Police here on Friday arrested 16 leaders and activists of Jamaat –e–Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir from Charmohanpur area in Sadar upazila with cocktails and gunpowder.
Officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station Ziaur Rahman said police arrested the Jamaat-Shibir men when they were holding a clandestine meeting in an orchard in the area at 7 am.
Some of them managed to flee but police arrested 16 of them along with 15 cocktails and half kilograms of gunpowder, he said.
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