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| Criminals producing crude bombs commercially, making high profit |
| 2013-11-02 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Makers of crude bombs made a windfall gain during last week's 60-hour hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... , which saw an unprecedented number of kabooms across the country. Police sources said during the opposition called strike, more than 1,000 crude bombs, locally known as cocktails, and Molotov cocktails went off in the capital alone. Quoting locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! bomb makers, Additional Deputy Commissioner Sanwar Hossain of Bomb Disposal Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch, said, "The bomb makers sell cocktails for Tk 500-1,000 in lots of 10′s and 20′s, on orders from only the people they know." He said the cocktail makers in their high-risk business were making profit five to 10 times their manufacturing cost. At least 50 groups make the bombs at places in and around Dhaka. Fuelled by high demand due to political confrontation, the bomb makers had an easy going as bombs are largely made of off-the-shelf materials, which are cheap since they are heavily used in the agricultural, industrial and cottage industry sectors. Yet, the price of their product is high since bomb making is risky and there is a long jail term if one gets caught. Sanwar said during their drive last week police recovered 250 live cocktails and materials for making 400 more. Explosions of a few hundred crude bombs inside a flat rocked a six-storied building in Fakirerpool on October 9. Investigators in the wrecked flat found 1.5kg of gunpowder and plenty of pebbles and bits of metals apparently meant to be used as shrapnel. They also found several hundred empty cans stored for making bombs. It was obvious that the flat was actually a bomb factory. Police believe that similar factories are still operating in Dhaka and the law enforcers are looking for them. Among the people police arrested during the hartal, they found a group who carry out kabooms for money. Sanwar said they were mostly teenagers, street urchins, drug addicts and thugs. During primary interrogation, they admitted carrying out kabooms for as little as Tk 200. On Sunday, the first day of the hartal, a 16-year-old boy sustained serious injuries to his hand and abdomen after a crude bomb burst in his hand at Kakrail. He had initially claimed that someone gave him the bomb saying it was a can of food and he got hurt trying to open it. He later told news hounds that he was attempting to bomb a target in exchange for Tk 200. Many political parties rely heavily on commercially manufactured bombs and hired hands for attacks while only a few make their own explosives, police sources said. During the 18-party alliance sponsored hartal, some bombs went kaboom!in front of the residences of the chief election commissioner, ministers, a Supreme Court judge, war crimes tribunal prosecutors, law enforcers, cop shoppes and some media houses. Criminals generally use crude bombs during running battles and to create panic, but last week several attacks were made apparently to unnerve people in high office. |
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