3,000 held in Bangladesh as PM vows to catch killers

Those detained include 37 suspected Islamist militants and hundreds of potential criminals who previously had warrants out against them, as well as several hundred ordinary arrests, police said.

Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of brutal killings that have spiked in recent weeks, with religious minorities, secular thinkers and liberal activists the chief targets.

“We have arrested 3,155 people including 37 Islamist militants as part of the special drive over the last 24 hours,” A.K.M Shahidur Rahman, deputy police inspector general, said. Read More