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| 3 bombs recovered in Ctg; one held |
| 2013-09-01 |
[Bangla Daily Star] Police tossed in the slammerDrop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a youth and seized three locally made bombs and 12 parachute rocket flares in the port city of Chittagong Saturday evening. The law enforcers said the youth, Farid Ahmed, 23, is a Shibir activist and a student of Government Haji Muhammad Mohsin College, reports our Chittagong correspondent. Acting on a tip-off, police conducted a drive in Old Railway Station area and jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Farid around 6:15pm, said Zafar Iqbal, a sub-inspector at Sadarghat Police Station. Police recovered the bombs and rocket flares from his possession, the cop said. Mirza Sayem Mahmud, an assistant commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (Kotwali zone), told The Daily Star, in primary interrogation, Farid described the bombs as coconuts, but police discovered the bombs after searching his bags. Farid might have gone there to carry out subversive activities, the official said adding that he was being interrogated by the police for further information. Police said these rocket flares are used to give signal in ships but some of the myrmidons use it to throw bombs by customising the device. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 He's not fifty. |
| Posted by: Fred 2013-09-01 09:47 |
| #2 23-yr-old "youth"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-01 09:35 |
| #1 'Ctg' just doesn't have the same cachet as 'L.A.', though the two are beginning to resemble each other. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-09-01 08:22 |