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'Red alert' in Khulna jail

27 October 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

UNB, Khulna

Khulna district jail has been put under 'red alert' fearing possible destructive activities and attack by the militants following ban on Islamist outfit Hijb-ut-Tahrir. Khulna jail superintendent M Shah Alam said the red alert was declared on Monday afternoon. He said there are some 1,900 prisoners in the district jail. Of them, five are members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir and six JMB activists. On Tuesday, security was beefed up in and around the prison. The law enforcers were seen searching the vehicles and pedestrians passing through the jail in the morning.