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| Five held with 7 firearms, ammunition |
| 2007-06-06 |
| Police in a raid yesterday seized seven firearms, 263 bullets and arrested five people from an abandoned rubber factory at the city's Nasirabad Industrial Area. Industrialist Engineer Afsaruddin Ahmad, a leader of Chittagong South District Awami League, owns the factory -- Bangladesh Chemical Complex (pvt) Ltd. The cache of weaponry included four three-knot-three rifles, two shotguns, a 9 mm pistol, 122 rifle bullets, 141 shot gun bullets, two magazines and 32 empty bullet shells. Among the arrestees, Fazlul Haq alias Dulal, 45, is a nephew of Eng Afsaruddin and the caretaker of the factory. The other four arrestees are Abu Bakar, Jasim Uddin, Rabiul Hossain and Abdul Alam -- all from Chandanaish and Patiya upazilas. A team of police from Bayezid Bostami Police Station led by Officer in Charge (OC) Matiul Islam raided a two-storied building at the abandoned factory on 74/81 Nasirabad Industrial Area at around 2.00pm yesterday. At one stage of quizzing, Dulal, the caretaker, admitted to having licensed firearms and bullets kept in the toilet. The law enforcers recovered the arms and ammunition hidden inside a steel armoire in the toilet, said OC Matiul. Two of the arrestees, Bakar and Jasim, told journalists that they were hired and stationed there to help Dulal guard the abandoned factory. OC Matiul suspects that the firearms and bullets could belong to a crime gang based in Chandanaish of south Chittagong and these were meant for use during parliamentary elections. Sources said police might interrogate Eng Afsaruddin over the recovery. Eng Afsaruddin ran for member of parliament in the 2001 general elections on AL ticket from Chittagong 13 (Chandanaish) against Col (retd) Oli Ahmad. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 actually meant to type dump...but ammo dumb might be more fitting.... |
| Posted by: Warthog 2007-06-06 11:28 |
| #2 Only 263 rounds? Barely enought to celebrate a Muslim wedding.... guess this constitutes an ammo dumb in Bangladesh |
| Posted by: Warthog 2007-06-06 11:27 |
| #1 four three-knot-three rifles I assume the writer means 303 -- naught or aught vs. knot. (I think there's a decimal point in there somewhere, but I'm afraid I don't know quite where.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-06-06 09:41 |