Bangladesh: Midnight bomb scare in Dhaka
Dhaka, July 24 (IBNS): Bangladesh police on Tuesday recovered a bomb from in front of a police box at Paltan intersection in country's capital city Dhaka, media reports siad.
Bomb scare gripped Khamarbari area when a similar object was found near a police box in the area almost simultaneously just before Tuesday midnight, reported bdnews24 news portal.
At Paltan, policemen found a carton with an object with wires in it around 11:30pm, Shahbagh Police Station OC Abul Hasan told bdnews24.
Members of the bomb disposal wing of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes or CTTC unit of police was called at the spot.
They detonated the bomb, media reports said.
At Khamarbari end of Manik Miah Avenue, about five kilometres from Paltan, another bomb-like object was found near a traffic police box meanwhile, reported the news portal.
“On information that a bomb-like object has been found near the intersection, we quickly cordoned off the area and called in the bomb-disposal unit. Later, the object was neutralized,” said Tejgaon Police Station OC Md Shamim-or-Rashid Talukdar told Dhaka Tribune.
A senior police official has told Dhaka Tribune that it will be investigated to check whether the incidents are connected to any conspiracies against the state.
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