Dhaka, May 27 -- Bangladesh Army has arrested two of the country's top-listed criminals Subrata Bain and Abu Rasel Masud alias Molla Masud along with two of their close aides, in coordinated raids in Kushtia and Dhaka.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed the arrests at a press briefing held Tuesday afternoon at the Officers' Mess inside Dhaka Cantonment.

News of Subrata and Masud's arrest had already circulated earlier in the day, with reports claiming the pair had been picked up from a multi-storey building in Kushtia during a pre-dawn operation.

At the time, the identity of the second arrestee was still unclear.

Speaking to bdnews24.com, Kushtia Model Police Station chief Mosharraf Hossain said: "We have heard that ...