There was a late night firing targeting the RAB camp in Salimpur forest of Sitakunda, Chittagong. RAB said that members of terrorist Yasin force opened fire. RAB members also fired back in self-defense. However, nothing is known about the casualty.
The attack took place around 1 pm on Sunday. After this, joint forces of army, RAB and police started operation in that area.
Captain of RAB-7 Chittagong Lieutenant Colonel Hafizur Rahman gave this information in a short message sent to the media around 3:30 pm.
He said, ‘Terrorist Yasin group attacked the joint camp of police and RAB in the dark of night. At this time we resist using non-lethal weapons. After that, there was a two-hour exchange of fire with the terrorists. Later, additional members of law and order forces have been deployed at the spot to deal with the situation.’
It is known that panic has spread among the local people after the attack. No casualties have been reported yet in this incident.
Going along the Bayezid-Fouzdarhat link road of Chittagong city, a road on the opposite side of the Asian University for Women enters the hill. Salimpur starts on that way. The area is basically divided into two parts, Jungle Salimpur and Alinagar. According to the information of the district administration, there are 3 thousand 100 acres of private land. Various bandits and terrorist groups have been controlling the area for a long time.
Last March 9, Army, RAB, Police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) about 3 thousand 200 members took control of the area by carrying out a joint operation. Despite several attempts before this, it was not possible to take control of the area. On the contrary, the police and administration officials were attacked. This time after the operation, the terrorists have covered their heads. In this situation, two separate checkpoints have been set up by RAB-Police at SM Pilot High School and Alinagar High School in Jungle Salimpur.
22 people were arrested in the joint operation of March 9, but the head of Yasin army. Yasin, Rokan Uddin, chief of the Rokan forces; A few ‘terrorists’ including Moshiur Rahman, Nurul Haque Bhandari, Gazi Sadek, Ghulam Ghafoor are still absconding.
