8 Bangladeshi men detained under Singapore's ISA for planning terror attacks back home
Published Tue, May 3, 2016 · 08:04 AM
[SINGAPORE] Eight Bangladeshi men working in Singapore who were planning to stage terror attacks back home have been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Tuesday.
The men, aged between 26 and 34, called their group the Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB) and intended to join terror group ISIS as foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.
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