DMP Team Defuses 11 Powerful Bombs Recovered from Milk Tins in Raipur
The bomb disposal unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has defused a total of 11 powerful IED (improvised explosive device) bombs — 6 large and 5 small — recovered from two foreign milk tins buried underground in Raipur, Lakshmipur.
Members of the expert team defused the bombs at around 2pm on Thursday (12 November) at an empty spot on cropland north of Billal Bepari's ferry ghat at Char Kachia village in Dakshin Charbangshi union of the upazila.
Earlier, on Wednesday night, a four-member delegation of the DMP's bomb disposal cell visited the spot and confirmed the presence of multiple powerful IED bombs inside the tins.
On Tuesday afternoon, the two milk tins were recovered from a pit dug in the ground in the yard of the rented-out house of the late Abu Taher Sikdar in Charbangshi village of Uttar Charbangshi union of the upazila.
Fearing the tins contained explosives, round-the-clock police guard was posted at the spot to avert an accident. Later, on the court's orders, the DMP bomb disposal cell was informed of the matter.
Police said a man named Saiful Islam Sujon, a resident of Bhola Sadar upazila, is alleged to be involved in the incident of creating panic by exploding cocktails at Khaserhat Bazar on 3 November and stabbing three people. He used to rent that house.
On Monday, a quantity of bomb-making equipment was recovered from a room of his rented house, police said.
Nizam Uddin Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Raipur Police Station, said members of the DMP bomb disposal team had initially confirmed that the two foreign milk tins contained multiple powerful IED bombs, and the expert team successfully defused them on Thursday afternoon.
