Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has recovered a foreign pistol, a magazine and two rounds of ammunition at the Jibannagar border in Chuadanga. A suspected smuggler fled, abandoning a plastic bag in a bamboo grove after noticing BGB’s presence; the weapon and ammunition were recovered after a search of the bag.
The items were recovered from a bamboo grove at the Madhabkhali border in Shimanto union, Jibannagar upazila, around 3am Wednesday. The assistant director of the Meherpur-58 BGB Battalion confirmed the matter in a press release Wednesday afternoon.
BGB said a patrol team led by Havildar Saifur Rahman of Madhabkhali BOP camp conducted an operation near border pillar 70/6-S. During the operation, they chased a suspected smuggler, who dropped a plastic bag in a bamboo grove while fleeing. A search of the bag recovered a foreign (US-made) pistol, a magazine and two rounds of ammunition.
Meherpur-58 BGB Battalion assistant director Munshi Imdadur Rahman said the recovered pistol, magazine and ammunition are being handed over to Jibannagar police station for legal action.
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