Members of Department of Drugs and Narcotics Control (DNC) arrested an alleged firearms trader with two pistols and some ammunition from a passengers bus at Bangra area on Rajshahi-Dhaka highway under Puthiya Upazila of the district today.
The detained person was identified as Titash, 19, son of Nurshed Alam of Gangarampur village under Shibgonj Upazila of Chapainawabgonj district.
On a tip-off, a DNC team conducted a raid in the Dhaka bound bus belongs to Hanif Paribahan and picked up Titash around 11.30 am. Thereafter, the team members seized two foreign pistols, four magazines and ten rounds of bullets after searching his body.
Talking to BSS Lutfor Rahman, Deputy Director of DNC here said the arrested person was involved in firearms trafficking and smuggling for long.
A case was recorded with the Puthiya Police Station in this connection and the arrested person with the seized firearms and ammunitions were handed over to police, Mr Rahman added.
