Chapainawabganj: Police arrested three activists of Jamaat-e-Islami along with arms and explosives from a house at Baluchar village in Shibganj upazila early Saturday.

The arrestees are Shariful Islam, 52,Ashraful Alam, 50 and Taiyubur Rahman, 50 of the village.

Mahbub Alam, superintendent of police said tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive in the area when some Jamaat activists were holding a secret meeting at the house of Shariful around 1:30am and arrested the trio.

Some other Jamaat men managed to flee the scene.

Police also recovered two pistols, six rounds of bullets, two magazines, 1.5 kg gunpowder and some Jihadi books from the spot.

A case was filed in this connection.