 The law enforcers recovered six powerful bombs, each weighing about five to six pound, and huge bomb-making materials from a den of terrorists in a hilly area in Chittagong and also seized two kilograms of explosives from a parcel of a courier service in Rajshahi yesterday.
| That would make a nasty hole in somebody. |
Acting on a tip off a squad of RAB conducted raid in a den of terrorists at Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar district and recovered the bombs and the explosives including huge quantity of gunpowder and cable detonators. Sensing the presence of the RAB personnel the terrorists managed to escape from the scene.
| "It's the RAB! Head for the hills!" |
RAB sources said each of the recovered bombs is very powerful which can easily kill at least 50 people and damage property to a great extent if it explodes in a crowded place.
| Couple kilos, surround with rusty nails, yep, that'd do it. |
The RAB also found letter written in tribal language in which the names of twelve terrorists were mentioned but the date was illegible. RAB personnel refused to disclose the names and identity of the terrorists for the sake of investigation.
| We'll be reading about each of them soon in Tales from the Crossfire Gazette. |
Sources said, the letter containing instruction to make at least 50 bombs with the bomb-making materials and asked to send those to Khagrachhari district mentioning any particular place, date and time.
| "Ship it somewhere, we don't care, and just have it go boom at some time or another. Whatever. Remember, you're a terrorist." |
The recovered bombs are now in RAB-7 headquarters in Chittagong.
Acting on a tip off a team of police of detective branch from Dhaka recovered two kilograms of explosives from the Parcel office of the courier service in Rajshahi yesterday morning. It is learnt, the DB police recovered a packet wrapped in polythene and paper board which was kept under the seat of a bike. The packet contains ingredients of making bombs including one kilogram of sugar flour heroin white powder, half kilogram of aluminium oxide and half kilogram of sulphur. The parcel also contains a number of leaflets of JMB and the same statements like those distributed with the bombs of August 17.
Police arrested the manager of the parcel section of courier service Nazmul, employees Khaleque and Nur Hossain.
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