BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas were arrested at midnight from their homes, according to their families.
The wives of the party’s general secretary and standing committee member say they were taken away by officers in plain clothes around 3 am on Friday.
But the police have not yet released any statement in this matter. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandkar Ghulam Farooq said, “I am not aware of this. I cannot talk about anything that is beyond my knowledge.”
Additional commissioner Hafiz Akhtar echoed Farooq.
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