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2 online journalists held in city

The Rapid Action Battalion early Monday detained two journalists of banglamail24.com, an online Bangla news portal, to inquire about a report it published earlier.The battalion, however, did not mention the content of the report.The detainees were Maksud Haider Chowdhury, executive editor of the portal, and its reporter Pranta Polash.Senior assistant police super Abdul Karim of RAB-3 said a team of the battalion raided the office of the online portal at Kakrail in the city around 2:00am.They detained the journalists to quiz over the report, he added