A suspected source of Kuki-Chin National Front was arrested at Thanchi in Bandarban hill district in Bangladesh in a joint drive against the armed national minority group on Tuesday.
The arrest was made in connection with attacks on banks and police installations that saw cash and arms looted in April 2鈥�4 at Ruma and Thanchi in Bandarban.
Bandar ban additional superintendent of police Hossain Md Raihan Kazemy said that the arrested one was not a member of the KNF but worked as a source for the armed group.
Earlier between Sunday evening and Monday, the joint operation carried out by the Bangladesh Army and other law enforcement agencies arrested 49 suspected KNF members and supporters 鈥� 31 male and 18 female 鈥� and the police arrested five, including a driver who reportedly drove KNF armed people at Thanchi on April 3.
Kazemy said that the 54 arrested people were produced before a Bandarban court on Tuesday and the court sent them to jail posting for April 28 and 29 the hearing of the cases.
Two others, including a cashier of Sonali Bank鈥檚 Ruma branch, were being interrogated, he said, adding that the two were witnesses to the attacks.
The Inter-Services Public Relations directorate on Monday that they seized seven guns, 20 bullets, a laptop, a set of uniforms, and a pair of boots at Bethelpara of Ruma in the hill district.
A day after the visit of home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and senior officials, army chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed visited the Bandarban region on April 7 and said that they had no prior intelligence about the possible attack on those banks.
Meanwhile, the KNF said on one of its unverified Facebook pages that a national gymnast with an ethnic Bawm identity was arrested in connection with one of the cases related to the Sonali Bank robbery.
On another unverified Facebook page, the KNF announced restrictions on traffic starting Monday evening.
The KNF also claimed that the joint force was 鈥榙ropping heavy bombs,鈥� which the police dismissed as 鈥榬umour鈥�.
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