A crude bomb blast in a flat in the capital’s Adabor injured at least two people yesterday. The injured are Anowarul Islam and Nuru Miah.
Officer-in-Charge Azizul Haque of Mohammadpur police station said, upon information, a police team led by Sub-Inspector Mahabub Hossain went to the third-floor flat of a multi-storied building at Road 4 of Dhaka Udyan area in Adabor at around 11am and sent the injured to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR). The team also recovered 14 more crude bombs, he added.
When contacted, SI Mahabub said Anowarul is still admitted at Nitor; Nuru is now at the police station after being given treatment. Police are interrogating the owner of the building to learn more about the incident.
The SI said the cause of the explosion could not be ascertained immediately nor the details of the injured.
Asked about any possibility of terrorist involvement, he said: “We cannot make any such comments until we investigate further."
