Cocktail blasts outside CID headquarters and inside Pallabi police station on the same evening; RAB member injured

Two cocktail explosions took place at two locations in the capital on the same evening. Around 7:30 pm on Sunday (8 November), a cocktail exploded in front of the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police in Malibagh, and another exploded inside the Pallabi police station.

A cocktail exploded on the road in front of the CID headquarters in Malibagh, on Bir Uttam Shamsul Alam Road.

Police said no one was killed or injured in the incident.

The matter was confirmed by Ariful Alam Arif, officer-in-charge (OC) of Paltan police station.

He said miscreants set off a cocktail in front of the CID office. No one was injured. Who carried out the incident is being investigated.

At the same time, a cocktail exploded inside the Pallabi police station premises in the capital. A member of the Special Response Battalion (SRB) was slightly injured in the blast.

Sources in the law enforcement agencies said two unidentified miscreants arrived on a motorcycle and hurled a cocktail from the flyover beside the Pallabi police station into the station premises.

When the cocktail exploded, splinters from the blast struck a member of SRB-4 who was positioned inside the station gate. He was slightly injured.

Confirming the matter, Jalal Uddin, officer-in-charge of Pallabi police station, said the miscreants set off the cocktail inside the police station premises with the aim of creating panic.

He said no one involved in the incident has been arrested yet.

Both incidents took place on the same evening, around 7:30 pm. Police are investigating both incidents.