AK47, bullets recovered in city
Staff Correspondent
Detectives recovered an AK47 assault rifle and 141 bullets from two persons at Dania in Shyampur Friday night but failed to arrest them.A Detective Branch (DB) team was checking vehicles at a check post on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in front of Dania College at around 11:35pm when two youths on a red motorbike were passing. "As we signalled them to stop for checking, they sped up and fled, dropping a bag behind," DB Assistant Commissioner (AC) Abdul Quddus Khan, who was leading the DB team, told The Daily Star. The policemen neither could chase the motorbike, nor open fire on it due to the rush of vehicles on the busy road. "They fled so fast that we could not even note the registration number of the vehicle," said AC Quddus. The detectives first thought there might be bombs in the bag. Later, however, they found a new AK47 rifle and 127 bullets, 14 other bullets and two magazines. No one was reported arrested in this connection as of yesterday evening.
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A member of Detective Branch of police shows an AK47 assault rifle and its ammunition recovered from Dania in the capital on Friday night. PHOTO: STAR |
