Cocktail explosions at three places in Dhaka in the evening; six of banned organisation arrested
Crude bomb explosions by miscreants continue in the capital. On Monday evening (9 November), cocktails exploded one after another at Jatrabari intersection, Malibagh intersection and the main gate of the Government Bangla College campus in Mirpur.
At around 9:15 pm, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said six members of the banned Awami League had been arrested while throwing cocktails. Three cocktails and a motorcycle were seized from them.
Detective sources at the scene said that at around 8:05 pm, a cocktail was thrown from the flyover in the middle of the main road coming from Dholairpar, near Kazi Tower at Jatrabari intersection. No casualties were reported. The overall situation remained normal after the explosion.
Earlier, at around 7:20 pm, a cocktail exploded at Malibagh intersection. It is understood that the cocktail was thrown from a motorcycle. No casualties were reported in this incident either.
Ariful Alam, officer-in-charge of Paltan police station, said the cocktail thrown from the Malibagh-Mouchak flyover exploded beside the slope of the Shantinagar flyover.
Meanwhile, a cocktail exploded at the main gate of the Government Bangla College campus in Mirpur. It was reported that a fire broke out in one or two shops beside the college gate.
However, Md. Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Model police station, said that although a cocktail had been thrown targeting the college, there was no report of a fire. About an hour earlier, one person had been arrested at Mirpur-1 while throwing a cocktail.
No casualties have been reported so far in any of the incidents, including the cocktail explosion in front of the main gate of Government Bangla College.
Three cocktails exploded at three different locations in the capital on the same evening, and no one was reported injured in any of them. The DMP said six people were arrested while throwing cocktails, and three cocktails and a motorcycle were seized from them.
