By NNN-APP,
Dhaka : Bangladesh Monday put all border outposts of paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on high alert with neighbouring India as police retrieved a powerful bomb on a timer and two hand bombs in southwestern bordering district of Jessore on Monday.
Explosive experts were called in immediately to defuse them, police guarding the spot said.
“We were tipped off Monday morning about three bombs being cached somewhere behind the cowshed of a man named ‘Tota’, known to be the son of Islam Ghani, in Chatkapota village, Sarsha sub‑district adjoining India,” said Sarsha police sub‑inspector Iqbal Hossain.
Acting upon the intelligence, police went to the border village and discovered the one large bomb with a timer attached and two smaller bombs, said the sub-inspector.
Police cordoned off the spot and informed Bangladesh Army bomb experts to intervene and defuse the bombs.
In a separate incident, RAB troopers from Jessore retrieved 10 kilograms of explosives after raiding the house of a man named Nasir in yet another border village Kalinia.
Police are investigating whether these explosives were intended for carrying out sabotage activities, while intelligence personnel have already begun probing the matter at the field level, officials said.
Police and locals said the explosives were smuggled into the country to commit subversive acts.
Major Sarwar Hossain of elite security outfit Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said that the materials are generally used in making bomb.
The Home Ministry Monday ordered the BDR troops to step up vigilance along the 4,000-mile Indo-Bangladesh border to stop smuggling of arms and ammunition into Bangladesh ahead of December 29 parliamentary poll.