Dhaka: Bangladesh police have arrested two alleged operatives of banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from south-eastern port city of Chittagong.
"Detectives have arrested two alleged members of banned militant outfit ABT," a police spokesman said.
ABT is blamed for a series of attacks on individuals, including secular writers, activists and followers of minority religious faiths. Independent security analysts believe that the banned outfit members are inclined to al-Qaeda.
ABT's top leader, Ziaul Haque, a renegade army major is on the run with a bounty on his head.
Police last month announced bounty leading to arrests of the fugitive major alongside Bangladeshi-Canadian Tamim Chowdhury describing the latter as the top leader of Neo-Jamaatul Mujahideen (neo-JMB).
The neo-JMB, known to be linked to ISIS, carried out the July 1 terrorist attack at Dhaka's Holey Artisan restaurant, killing 22 people including 17 foreigners and an Indian girl.
Chowdhury, however, was killed in a security raid at a militant hideout at Narayanganj on the outskirts of the capital along with two other alleged terrorists on August 27.
