IANS/Dhaka
Police in Bangladesh have seized 130 handmade bombs and raw materials from a house in Dhaka’s Mohakhali, police said yesterday.
Mostafizur Rahman, 23, president of Bangaldesh Islami Chhatra Shibir’s Banani unit, was arrested with four others during a raid at the house at TB Gate area in Dhaka around 4am, said Banani police office chief Bhuiyan Mahbub Hossain, bdnews24.com reported.
The rest are the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing, he said.
One kilo of gunpowder, 10kg of stone chips, 3kg of nails and two litres of petrol have also been recovered.
Bhuiyan said one of the activists is an expert in making bombs.
They have been living in the house they rented a few months ago, said Gulshan Division Deputy Commissioner of Police Lutfur Kabir, and provided details of their identity.
Vehicles are being attacked with bombs daily ever since Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia announced a countrywide transportblockade from January 5.
ARMY FOR CITY POLLS: The Bangladesh election commission has decided to deploy the army from April 26 to 29 in Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation areas to check any untoward incident during the upcoming city polls.
Election Commissioner Mohammad Shahnewaz made the announcement at a press briefing in Dhaka yesterday, Xinhua reported.
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad told journalists on Sunday that “in a day or two we will make our decision regarding the deployment of the army”.
Dhaka South and North City Corporation polls are slated for April 28. The election to the Chittagong City Corporation will also take place on the same day.
According to the country’s electoral rules, such municipal elections are to be held in a non-partisan manner, but political parties indirectly nominate candidates to test their popularity in such local-level elections.
