The Special Response Battalion (SRB-9) has recovered a foreign-made firearm, explosives, ammunition and a sound grenade looted from police from a patch of jungle in Khadimnagar, Sylhet city.
The items were found in the jungle in the Pirergaon area of Khadimnagar union, under Sylhet Metropolitan Police’s Airport police station, at around 1am on Sunday, after Saturday night (October 24).
They include a US-made single-shot pipe gun, four sticks of power gel, four non-electric detonators, a safety fuse, four shotgun cartridges and an unexploded sound grenade. No one involved could be arrested at the time.
SRB-9 sources said a team searched the jungle in Pirergaon at around 1am after Saturday night, acting on a tip-off. The firearm, explosives and ammunition were found in a polythene bag lying in the jungle.
Confirming the recovery on Sunday (October 25), SRB-9 media officer Additional Superintendent of Police KM Shahidul Islam Sohag said the weapon and ammunition had been handed over to Airport police station under a general diary entry for further legal action. SRB-9’s investigation is continuing, he said.
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