Rapid Action Battalion personnel recovered 43 hand bombs form capital’s Bijli Moholla in Mohammadpur yesterday morning while conducting a drive.
Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Raihan Uddin Khan said the Rab members, acting in a tip-off, recovered the abandoned hand bombs from near a building in Bijli Moholla around 11:30am.
He said: “The criminals had been preserving the bombs to carry out subversive acts.” He added that raids were being conducted in the area to arrest the culprits involved with the incident.