BOGURA: Police in a special drive arrested 87 people, including 15 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, across the district on Wednesday night.
Ujjal Kumar Roy, assistant superintendent of police, said police arrested the 87 people, including Jamaat-Shibir men, suspecting that they might carry out subversive activities centering the hartal.
Police also recovered two pipe guns and one cartridge from Sherpur upazila and one shutter gun from Dupchanhia upazila in an abandoned condition.
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