Nine cocktails recovered from abandoned spot in Barisal's Gournadi after six-hour cordon

Law enforcement agencies have recovered nine cocktails from an abandoned place in the Sundardi area of Gournadi municipality in Barisal.

The cocktails were recovered at around 2:15pm on Sunday (November 1) from the abandoned spot between Torki Paan Bhandar and the house of Kabir Gharami.

Police said local residents spotted cocktail-like objects at the place around 8am and informed the police station.

On receiving the news, the upazila administration, police station officers and the SRB went to the spot and kept it cordoned off. Later, at around 2pm, the bomb disposal unit of SRB Khulna-6 reached the scene and recovered the cocktails.

Gournadi Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Tarik Hasan Russel said, 'The cocktails have been recovered with the help of members of the SRB Khulna-6 bomb disposal unit. How the cocktails came here is being investigated. The process of taking legal action in this regard is under way.'