UTTARA ARMS HAUL
Police seize 32 more magazines
After Saturdays haul of a huge cache of arms and ammunition from a canal in the capitals Uttara area, police yesterday recovered 32 more magazines from the same spot. Sub-inspector (SI) Abul Kalam Azad, duty officer of Turag Police Station, said they resumed the drive at Sholahati canal of Uttara Sector-16 near Mirpur Beribandh around 9am.
Yusuf, a diver of the Fire Service and Civil Defense, pulled out a carton from the canal around 11:15am. Thirty-two magazines of 7.62 bore pistol were found inside the carton.
The drive was called off at 3pm, said Mahmudul Haque, inspector of the Fire Service Control Room.
During the drive on Saturday, the law enforcers seized arms and ammunition, including 95 foreign pistols, two local pistols, 189 magazines of pistols, 263 magazines of light machine gun (LMG), over 1,060 rounds of bullets of small 7.62 and 9mm pistols, and 10 bayonets from the canal, according to Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Uttara zone) Bidhan Tripura.
A case was scheduled to be filed against unnamed people in this connection.
The seizure comes at a time when a number of target killings took place in the country and the law enforcement agencies have come under criticisms for large-scale arrests and crossfire incidents.
However, the police were yet to detain anyone more than 24 hours into the recovery of the huge arms cache.
