20 cocktails and 41 torch sticks recovered from roadside in Mirpur's Paikpara, detonated to make them safe
Police have recovered 20 cocktails, 41 torch sticks and kerosene fuel from beside a road in the capital's Mirpur area. The recovered items had been left beside the road wrapped in paper bags.
On Thursday (5 November) at dawn, police recovered the cocktails, torch sticks and kerosene from the Paikpara Ansar Camp area of Mirpur.
Mirpur Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Hafizur Rahman said an operation was conducted in the Paikpara Ansar Camp area led by Mirpur Model Police Station and with the support of the SRU unit. At that time police members saw cocktail-like objects and torch sticks lying on the road in front of Tanim Bhaban.
The OC said 15 cocktails were later recovered from three paper bags lying on the road and five more lying on the road itself, for a total of 20. About two litres of kerosene in two bottles in a market bag, 41 torch sticks and gathered soft cork sheet were also recovered.
The OC also said that, to ensure public safety, the 20 cocktails were detonated in two rounds in holes dug in an open place in the compound of an under-construction building of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works beside Hakkani Lane in Kalyanpur, under Mirpur Model Police Station.
OC Md Hafizur Rahman said legal action in the incident is under process.
