DHAKA, March 6: One of the two most wanted militant leaders of Bangladesh, Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, was arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion after a brief encounter in the remote Rampur village in the Mymensingh district on Monday.

The arrest of Bangla Bhai, the second-in-command of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), came four days after the capture of Shaikh Abdur Rahman, the chief of the organization, in north-eastern Sylhet district.

The JMB is held responsible for nationwide bombings which claimed many lives last year. The government in September last year announced a bounty of Tk 5,000,000 each for the arrest of Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai.