Security beefed up as 5 bombs found near Bangabhaban
Staff Correspondent
Law enforcers tightened security around the Bangabhaban yesterday afternoon following recovery of five abandoned bombs at the south-eastern end of Paltan Maidan, some 200 yards off the president's house.Officials of the bomb disposal unit of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) dismantled the bombs contained in bottles and wrapped in red Scotch tape. The police, however, could not arrest anyone in this connection as of 7:00pm yesterday. They closed the road adjacent to the Bangabhaban boundary wall at Dilkusha end and the road from Gulistan to Rajuk Bhaban, setting up barbed-wire barricades. The police said two street urchins first noticed the five "objects" wrapped in red tape in a bush at the southeast corner of Paltan Maidan around 3:00pm and informed the on-duty policemen. The law enforcers then called in the Rab explosives experts. Zakir Hossain, deputy assistant director of Rab bomb disposal wing, told The Daily Star that the bombs are very much like crackers and made up of sulphur and stone chips. If exploded, the bombs could harm people within the 15-20 yard radius of explosion, Zakir said. Earlier on November 20, a drive-by bomb attack was carried out near the south gate of Bangabhaban. Two homemade bombs were exploded in the highly secured area although no one was injured.
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