Singapore ordered detention of eight Bangladeshis on Wednesday for two years for allegedly plotting attacks in Bangladesh. The eight Bangladeshi men held in Singapore had formed an Islamist cell that met in parks and open fields and shared radical propaganda and videos, authorities in the city-state said on Wednesday. The Singapore home ministry said it had issued two-year detention orders for the men, who it said called themselves the Islamic State in Bangladesh, under Singapore’s colonial-era Internal Security Act, which allowed suspects to be held for lengthy periods without trial.The ISB is the first group comprising all foreigners to be detained under the ISA for terrorism-related activities in Singapore,the ministry said in a statement. Wealthy, multi-ethnic Singapore, which has not faced any successful militant attacks in decades, announced the arrests on Tuesday, saying its investigations showed the ISB had identified several possible targets in Bangladesh. Giving further details on Wednesday,deputy leader and members assigned specific roles such as finance, authorities said the group had a hierarchical structure with a leader. Its members had each worked in Singapore for between three and 10 years and generally lived in different accommodation, the ministry said, adding they were not known to have been radicalised when they arrived in the city-state. There were no indications that they had planned to carry out attacks in Singapore, it said.