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Law enforcers have beefed up security steps in and around Baridhara diplomatic enclave following Sunday's e-mail threat to blow up western embassies, including the US Embassy, by Al-Qaida, report agencies.
Black-dressed RAB and police were seen patrolling the area equipped with sophisticated weapons, and the intelligence virtually ringed the area.
High police officials are frequently supervising the security and patrolling the area.
Police are quizzing the Nigerian, David, detained Sunday evening from in front of Gulshan Club. Police termed the Nigerian national whose visa has already been expired as mysterious.
David told police that snatchers took away his money, but when asked by police he mysteriously refused to meet Nigerian footballers playing in local football league.
Gulshan thana police said they are trying to push David back to his country.
An intelligence source said that the foreign embassies are also trying to track down the address of the e-mail sender.
The US embassy officials in Dhaka, however, refused to make any comment over the e-mail threat.
In a frantic manhunt, police Monday raided two villages in Faridganj upazila of Chandpur district and arrested three youths having the name of Manik as the threat to British High Commission in Dhaka was sent by a man named Manik Hossain.
All the three youths were arrested on suspicion of their involvement with the issuance of threat warning to blow up the American and European countries' missions in the capital.
One Manik Hossain, claiming himself as a member of Al-Qaida Network, Asia, sent the message to the British High Commission.
Faridganj police led the raid at Khajuria village and rounded up Khorshed Alam Bhuiyan alias Manik, 45, a pharmacy owner and son of Abdur Rab Bhuiyan. Another youth, named Manik, 20, a VCD shop owner, was arrested from his shop in the same village at noon.
In their hunt for Manik Hossain, police also arrested another youth named Manik, 22, son of Ruhul Amin, from his by-cycle garage at Shilodana village. However, all the three Maniks denied their involvement with the threat.
Residents of Khajuria informed police that there are two more youths named Manik in their village, but both now stay in Dhaka.
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