Dhaka Metropolitan Police said they seized on Saturday three bags stashed with five walky-talkies, two repeaters, some explosive gel and chips in the canal at Uttara from where police last week had seized a cache of arms.
Police said they are suspecting the same group– that threw away a cache of arms last week– might have dropped the transceivers and other explosive substances in the water in the wake of recent ‘block-raids.’
The gel and the chips are used to make improvised explosive devices, police said.
The walky-talkies were made in Japan while the repeaters were made in USA, said Uttara crime division deputy commissioner, Bidhan Tripura. He said the origin of IED and other chips could not be confirmed.
Police claimed that they learnt that two persons drove a microbus to the bank of the canal and threw those in the water.
He said some miscreants threw the three bags in the canal, an open area, and ‘We obtained the information around 1:00am.’
In the morning, the police said, they seized the bags and found the electronic gadgets and IEDs.
‘We suspect some international and high profile organised groups might have possessed those arms, ammunitions and materials,’ Bidhan said. Police said that legal action would follow but none were arrested as of Saturday evening.
DMP is still investigating into the source of the arms recovered last week, and looking for the people behind the arms abandonment.
Police claimed the seizure included 97 foreign pistols, about 1,060 bullets, 497 magazines, 10 bayonets, and 188 cleaning rods, from the canal on June 18 and June 19, respectively.
Police claimed that a man drove an SUV to the place and threw the arms and ammunition into the canal.
On June 20, DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah claimed that they assumed that a ‘vested interest group’, trying to grab state power by creating instability, might have dumped the arms there.
Source: New Age
