11 Powerful IED Bombs Defused by Controlled Explosions in an Open Field in Raipur, Lakshmipur
Eleven powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) recovered in Raipur, Lakshmipur, have been defused. A four-member bomb disposal team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) carried out the operation today, Thursday, from 11am to 4pm. The team was led by Police Inspector Mudachher Kaiser.
Raipur police station officer-in-charge (OC) Nizam Uddin Bhuiyan said, 'A total of 11 IED bombs, small and large, were found in the two milk cans. They were recovered and defused by exploding them in an open field in Char Kachia village of South Charbanshi.'
Last Tuesday afternoon, the two milk cans were recovered from a pit in the courtyard of the house of the late Abu Taher Sikdar in Charbanshi village of North Charbanshi union in the upazila. Suspecting the cans contained bombs, police guarded the house for several days.
Police sources said members of the bomb disposal team reached the spot on Wednesday night and inspected everything on the ground. This morning, the bombs were taken out of the two cans one by one.
The bombs were then taken a few kilometres away to an empty field near Bachchu Bepari's ferry ghat in Char Kachia village of South Charbanshi union. There they were defused by exploding them. A large number of curious people gathered at both the recovery and explosion sites.
Police said Saiful Islam Sujon had been renting the house of Abu Taher Sikdar for about two months. On 3 November, after he was beaten by a mob on allegations of creating panic by exploding cocktails and stabbing three people in the Khaserhat Bazar area, local people handed him over to the police.
OC Nizam Uddin Bhuiyan said police recovered a large quantity of bomb-making equipment from that room last Monday. Saiful Islam Sujon is currently detained in jail.
