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Law enforcers have beefed up security after incidents of crude bomb explosions and buses being set on fire in different areas of the capital from noon to midnight on Friday (18 September). More than two hundred checkposts have been set up on important roads and suspicious persons and vehicles are being searched.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said police are working at the four entry points to Dhaka and searches are going on at more than two hundred checkposts.
General diaries (GDs) and cases have been filed over Friday’s crude bomb explosions and bus arson incidents. Police are working to identify and arrest those involved by collecting CCTV footage from the spots.
Alongside the police, the Special Response Battalion (SRB) has conducted searches by setting up checkposts on various important roads of the capital since night. Patrols have also been increased.
Meanwhile, the DMP arrested 515 people in separate drives in the capital in the past 24 hours. Forty-seven cases were filed during this time.
Of them, Ramna division arrested 30, Lalbagh division 34, Wari division 64, Motijheel division 76, Tejgaon division 92, Mirpur division 120, Gulshan division 37, Uttara division 46 and the Detective Branch 16.
In the drives, two foreign pistols, two magazines, 10 bullets, three machetes, five knives, fragments of exploded crude bombs, 53 iron nails, 94 kilograms 350 grams of ganja, 11,167 yaba pills and 121.3 grams of heroin were recovered.
Besides, three bottles of foreign liquor, 20 cans of beer, a private car, five mobile phones and Tk 7,200 were seized.
Niaz Mehedi, ADC of the DMP’s public relations and media wing, confirmed the arrests and said further legal action against the arrestees is under process.
