Comilla Correspondent:A police outpost came under attack in Comilla on Tuesday afternoon, a day after an attempted a bomb attack to snatch away a death row militant. Two persons were held in this connection.
The incident occurred on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chandina, our Comilla correspondent reports. Two criminals were detained. Earlier, police said that the two were �JMB militants�.
They cast a crude bomb at law enforcers and attempted to flee during a routine check in a passenger bus around 12:00pm, said Nasir Uddin Mridha, officer-in-charge (OC) of Chandina Police Station.
Police chased down Hasan, 22, hailing from Patia, and Jashim, 20, by firing shots at them, he added.
Jashim has pallet injuries in his body, Sub-inspector Monir, in-charge of the temporary police check point at Kutumbopur, said.
Both the arrestees were rushed to Comilla Medical College Hospital, the SI said.
A shoulder bag containing several petrol bombs was seized from their possession, he added.
Police are probing whether they have any link with militancy, he said.