Police recovered gunpowder, crude bombs and explosive making materials from a flat in University of Dhaka’s employee’s quarter in the capital’s Azimpur area on Sunday.
Seventeen crude bombs, 15-20 petrol bombs, half kilogram of gunpowder and empty shells of bombs were recovered from the flat.
Police Inspector Nurul Mottakim of Lalbagh police station said on information they conducted a drive at the quarters.
He said police entered the flat breaking its front door. “The bombs and materials for making bombs were found inside a bathroom of a flat on the third floor of the building. No one was in there when police stormed in,” he said,
The quarter was allocated for the second and third class employees of the university.
“The gun powder indicates that whoever stored them had a plan to carry out massive subversive activities. More than 100 crude bombs could be made from the ingredients recovered,” said the inspector.
An employee named Khorshed used to live in that flat. His family left the flat two and a half months back.
Later, the university authorities allocated it to Bishu Chandra Das, an employee of the law department of the university. But he was yet to shift in that flat, according to police.
.“We suspect that local Jamaat-Shibir men, with the aid of some employees, used the empty flat for storing explosives,” said Inspector Nurul.
After the raid, Bomb Disposal Unit of Detective Branch (DB) of police took the explosive making materials for examination.
Additional Police Commissioner of DMP Sanwar Hossain said the criminals might had stored the bombs to use during the ongoing 60-hour shutdown.
“37 bombs were recovered. We assume the bombs were stored to be used recently,” he said.