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20 June 2009, 17:00 PM

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Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi

Fifteen militant suspects, arrested in the city on Friday, were sent to jail by a metropolitan magistrate's court yesterday, police said. Police arrested them on suspicion of their links with JMB militants, but they are yet to confirm their involvement in militant activities. The law enforcers arrested 18 people, including women and children, from a house in the city'sTikapara area. They later released three children.