The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Three prison guards were suspended yesterday on charge of negligence of duty as five convicted JMB activists tried to escape from the Comilla jail Sunday night. The chastised jail guards are Anwar Hossain, Ramzan Ali and Abdus Sobhan.

DIG (Prisons) Maj Shamsul Haider Siddiqui yesterday said that the security has been beefed up in all jails of the country following the incident.Five activists of JMB, including the detained son of its executed chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman, made a violent attempt to escape from the jail Sunday night, leaving five prison policemen seriously wounded.

Nabil Rahman and Minhaj managed to scale over the eastern wall of the jail at about 8:25pm Sunday. But local people and jail police chased and caught them shortly after the jailbreak.

The jail guards nabbed the three other militants-Rangila, Redwan and Shamim Ahmed Chhoton alias Aminul Islam-during their attempt to vault over the jail wall after the first two escaped.

The militants beat up five jail police indiscriminately in a bid to make their way out of the jail.

Two of the injured JMB activists-Mizanur Rahman Minhaj and Rongila-were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from Comilla

Medical College Hospital yesterday morning.

A two-member committee, comprising Joint secretary of the Home Ministry Mostafizur Rahman and Comilla ADM Rafiqul Islam, was formed to investigate the incident.

The Prison Directorate has formed another inquiry committee to probe the incident.