Bomb scare at Willes Little Flower
5 injured in blasts of abandoned bombs; 2 nabbed for threat-call to CU VC
Staff Correspondent
An explosive scare seized the Willes Little Flower School at Kakrail on sighting of a time-bomb-like device in a toilet yesterday noon, a few hours after five others including a toddler and two children were injured in two bomb blasts at Shyampur and Gulistan in the city.Abdul Karim, a staff of Willes Little Flower School, first noticed an object wrapped in red adhesive tape and attached with wires to a Casio wristwatch on the toilet's cornice in the school's new building and took it to be a time bomb device. He immediately informed the school authorities of the find. As the news spread amid an ongoing examination, students, teachers and staffers as well as guardians waiting outside the school gate got panicked. The guardians lined up along the school boundary shouting, "Stop examination, give our children back to us. " "An explosives expert from the Criminal Investigation Department at around 5:30pm dismantled the object and found a tape-wrapped piston of automobile engine inside it," an official of Ramna Police Station said. The thing was burnt on the Circuit House Field. In Shyampur, 18-month-old Yanoor and her sisters Rozina, 5, and Shathi, 7, suffered splinter injuries when a homemade bomb in a jorda container they were unknowingly playing with went off at around 8:30am. "The children found the bomb abandoned on a road near their house at 200/12 Minshibari at Jurain in Shyampur," said Faruq Shikder, the victims' father. Yanoor with five splinter injuries in the back is undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) while Rozina and Shathi received first aid at a local clinic. In the other incident at Gulistan, two day-labourers were injured as two homemade bombs hidden in a pile of rubble near the Volleyball Stadium exploded. Witnesses said the bombs kept beneath the rubble pile exploded at around 9:00am when a spade hit them as 18 day-labourers were clearing the rubble. Police could not say who kept the bombs there. Faruq, 25, with splinter injuries in his right leg and hands and Karim, 16, in both his legs were treated at the DMCH. BOMB THREAT TO CU VC
Police yesterday arrested two youths for giving bomb threat to the office of the vice-chancellor of Chittagong University (CU), reports our Chittagong correspondent. The two, Mohammad Shahjahan and Jagadish Rudra, were arrested at around 7:00pm at their phone-fax shops -- AH Traders and Palli Phone -- at CU Gate No 1 by the Chittagong-Hathazari Road, police said. The arrestees claimed two unknown bearded men made the phone calls at 11:15am.
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