Detectives arrested five people from Gulshan and Mirpur areas on Friday night for their suspected link to the murder of Awami League leader Farhad Hossain.
Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch of police conducted a drive in the areas and arrested five people along with four pistols, four magazines and 12 rounds of bullets, said DB (North) sources.
Earlier on June 15, Farhad Hossain, 52, general secretary of Badda union Awami League, was shot to death by unknown miscreants in the city's Uttar Badda area while coming out of Baitus Salam-Jame mosque after offering Juma prayers, according to a UNB report.
Then on July 5, two murders suspects were killed in a reported gunfight with detectives in city's Uttar Badda area.
