Members of the Special Response Battalion (SRB) have recovered nine crude bombs from a vacant plot in Gournadi municipality, Barishal.
The bombs were recovered at about 2:15pm on Sunday (1 November) from a vacant spot between Torki Paan Bhandar and the house of Kabir Gharami in the Sundardi area of ward 1 of the municipality.
Earlier, at about 8am, locals saw objects resembling crude bombs at the spot and informed the police station. Officials from the upazila administration, police and SRB came to the scene and cordoned it off as a crime scene. Police, SRB members and a bomb disposal team then began work at the site.
Confirming the information, Tariq Hasan Russell, officer-in-charge of Gournadi Model Police Station, said the bombs were recovered and defused with the help of members of the bomb disposal unit of SRB Khulna-6. Police are looking into how the bombs came to be there, he said, and the process of taking legal action is under way.
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