The large cache of weapons recovered from Narayanganj was stored there with an intention of using them in large-scale sabotage in the future, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque has said.
He made the statement after visiting Narayanganj’s Rupganj on Friday morning from where a huge cache of arms and ammunition was being recovered.
The police chief said: “A vested quarter had stored the weapons to create turmoil and thwart the development process of the country but our law enforcers have successfully foiled the conspiracy.”
DMP's Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit Chief Monirul Islam has also visited Rupganj on Friday around 12pm.
After the visit, he told reporters: "The tactic of concealing arms and ammunition at Rupgonj in Narayangonj is quite similar to that of Diabari, from where a large cache of arms and ammunition was also found last year."
He suspects the same group is behind the concealment of weapons in the two locations.
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Police started the drive around Thursday at midnight and have so far recovered 62 firearms including SMGs, LMGs and M16 assault riffles, two rocket launchers, 40 magazines, four pistols, two walkie-talkies, 42 grenades and a huge quantity of bullets.
Rupganj police’s Officer-in-Charge Islam Hossain said that such firearms were “usually used by Indian separatist outfit Ulfa and militant group JMB.”