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Big ammo haul from Bogra AL leader's house, truck

62,112 bullets, 120kg of explosives recovered

ANWAR ALI, Bogra
Police recovered 62,112 bullets of Chinese rifle and powerful explosives weighing 120kg from an abandoned truck and an Awami League (AL) leader's house at Jogarpara village in Kahalu upazila of the district on Friday night in what they said the biggest ever haul.
Five persons including the wife of AL leader Akhlakur Rahman Pintu were arrested.
Pintu, convenor of Birkadar Union AL, along with five others fled the spot before the police arrived.
Sources said police could not arrest the leaders of the gang, believed to be involved in arms trade, as they fled before the police
raid.
"There was undoubtedly a massive plan for sabotage and it may be linked to other sensational crimes across the country," Deputy Commissioner of Bogra Rafiqul Mohamed told The Daily Star.
The explosives recovered are used for making dynamites and the ammunition are of Chinese origin, now also made in India, he said.
Some 50,100 bullets in 18 plastic bags and 42 packets of explosives were recovered from the truck abandoned inside a brick kiln of one Yasin Ali. The rest were found in and around the AL leader's house.
The explosives are of dark brown colour, each packet weighing
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around two kilograms. An army official present at the spot told newsmen on condition of anonymity that about 200 grams of the explosives were enough to blow up a whole thana like Kahalu.
At around 10:00pm on Friday, two persons informed the Dupchachia police that a truck loaded with pineapples was left unclaimed at the brick kiln of Yasin Ali at Joarpara in Kahalu upazila.
They also said some locals were looting the pineapples and that Pintu along with five others were unloading some 'large and heavy plastic bags'.
Officer-in-Charge of the Dupchachia Police Station Zabid Hasan went to the spot and recovered the ammunition and explosives.
Later, Dupchachia and Kahalu police jointly searched the village.
Acting on the statement of Pintu's wife Anwara Begum, they recovered four bags of ammunition from a bamboo cluster behind their house, one bag from the courtyard of the house, one from a nearby
pond and 15 packets of explosives from a room at the house.
Police also arrested Bachhu, Enamul, Sohel and Feroz of the same village who were allegedly helping Pintu unload the bags from the truck.
Police suspect the ammunition and explosives were brought from Chittagong.
The Dupchachia officer-in-charge said Pintu was on the police list of suspects for long but there was no specific allegation against him.
Without directly blaming the AL, ruling BNP lawmaker from Bogra Helaluzzaman Talukdar said the incident made it clear who were engaged in anti-state activities. He demanded immediate arrest of the gang leaders.
District AL President Mamtaz Uddin however said he does not know of any AL leader by the name of Pintu. He denied involvement of any AL activist in such crimes.
A team of army explosive experts from Bogra and Dhaka went to the spot to inspect the ammunition and explosives.