Police in Bangladesh have arrested 31 men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack, an officer said Saturday. Police chief Masudul Haque Nuruzzaman, from Kushtia district 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of the capital Dhaka, told AFP the men were members of the Islamic group Hizb ut-Tauhid.
"Among the 31 arrested was the group's chief of the Kushtia district who trained and fought in Afghanistan," said Nuruzzaman. "The arrests were made on Friday during a raid on a meeting. We have intelligence to suggest they were preparing an attack."