KHULNA — Police recovered four suspected bombs in Terkhada upazila, and three explosions went off in front of a union council member’s home in the upazila’s Madhupur area the same day, leaving residents alarmed.
Police and local sources said a young man named Walid spotted three red containers lying near the home of Abdur Rouf Faqir in the New Bus Stand area of Terkhada Sadar union on Thursday morning. Around 6:15 a.m., on his way to teach at a coaching center as he does every day, he saw the red containers on a roof overhang. A closer look made him suspect they were bombs. He immediately notified police. Terkhada police went to the scene and recovered the containers. Later, a woman walking by spotted another red container under a kachu plant beside the bypass road. Police recovered that one as well.
Meanwhile, around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, three explosions went off at the entrance to the home of Union Council member Bellal Molla in the Parhajigram-Katashia Bazar area of Madhupur union. After the first blast, neighbors rushed over and several unidentified people fled the scene. Two more loud explosions followed.
Terkhada police station Officer-in-Charge Mehedi Hasan said: “A total of four suspected cocktail bombs were recovered in abandoned condition. They are being soaked in water and examined.”
He said an investigation has begun to determine the source and motive of the incident. The incidents have caused a stir in the area, and residents have demanded that the case be solved quickly and the culprits arrested.
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