Police find huge cache of arms, ammo in N’ganj lake

The police found a huge cache of 62 submachine guns (SMGs), rocket launchers, explosives, and ammunition in a lake in Narayanganj yesterday. Inspector general of police (IGP) Shahidul Huq said the cache appeared to have been stored to carry out a large-scale sabotage in the country. The IGP’s remarks came at the end of a joint operation by the police and the detective branch, supported by the fire services department.
“We are trying to arrest the gang,” Huq told reporters. The police said they had got specific information on Tuesday that a huge cache of arms was stored in the house of a man called Sharif Mia at Daudpur union in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila. Police raided the house and seized two Chinese rifles. But Sharif gave them the slip. However, he was later nabbed from Chashara in Narayanganj on Wednesday. Acting on his statement, police found two more Chinese rifles buried in the ground at Baluchar in Rupganj.
But the largest cache was seized yesterday from a lake under the Bhuiya Bridge at Purbachol in Rupganj. It included 62 Chinese-made SMGs, 7.62mm pistols, two rocket launchers, 49 mortar shells, two walkie-talkies, 1,527 rounds of ammunition, 60 magazines, 49 grenades, and 49 detonators—all wrapped carefully in polythene.
The head of the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Monirul Islam, visited the area and told reporters that the method of hiding the cache was similar to that of the arms recovered from Diabari Lake near Uttara in Dhaka last year. He suspects the hand of the same gang in both cases.

 

Police find huge cache of arms, ammo in Nganj lake

The police found a huge cache of 62 submachine guns (SMGs), rocket launchers, explosives, and ammunition in a lake in Narayanganj yesterday. Inspector general of police (IGP) Shahidul Huq said the cache appeared to have been stored to carry out a large-scale sabotage in the country. The IGPs remarks came at the end of a joint operation by the police and the detective branch, supported by the fire services department. We are trying to arrest the gang, Huq told reporters. The police said they had got specific information on Tuesday that a huge cache of arms was stored in the house of a man called Sharif Mia at Daudpur union in Narayanganjs Rupganj upazila. Police raided the house and seized two Chinese rifles. But Sharif gave them the slip. However, he was later nabbed from Chashara in Narayanganj on Wednesday. Acting on his statement, police found two more Chinese rifles buried in the ground at Baluchar in Rupganj. But the largest cache was seized yesterday from a lake under the Bhuiya Bridge at Purbachol in Rupganj. It included 62 Chinese-made SMGs, 7.62mm pistols, two rocket launchers, 49 mortar shells, two walkie-talkies, 1,527 rounds of ammunition, 60 magazines, 49 grenades, and 49 detonatorsall wrapped carefully in polythene. The head of the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Monirul Islam, visited the area and told reporters that the method of hiding the cache was similar to that of the arms recovered from Diabari Lake near Uttara in Dhaka last year. He suspects the hand of the same gang in both cases.