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76 kg time bomb found near PM's rostrum

Police arrest 3 in Gopalganj

By Special Correspondent
An attempt to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Haslna by using a powerful time bomb In her home district Gopalganj was foiled yesterday hours before the device was set to go off. army and police sources said.
The powerful timing device in a metallic container weighing 76 kgs was planted in the ground only 50 feet from the rostrum from where Sheikh Hasina is due to address a public rally at Shiekh Lutfar Rahman Ideal College In Kotaliapara today.
Kotallpara is around 28 kilometres from GopalganJ town and Is accessible* by road through Tungipara. the home
village of Sheikh Hasina How-ever It was learnt Ih.K she was due to go there by helicopter A helipad has already been constructed there.
It was learnt that the explosives planted in the ground was discovered accidentally on Thursday when a tea boy from a local stall detected some wires protruding out from the ground close to tire rostrum 1 he tea boy informed local people who conveyed It to the local Union Council Chairman
On receipt of Information, an Army team of explosives ex-perts was sent from the Jessore Cantonment yesterday morning. They immediately retrieved the explosive material. Police did not put a security cordon around the rostrum as a protective measure normally done on such occasions.
Army officials, giving a dr-* scription of the device said it looked like a small drum made of cast iron. The cylinder shaped container has a lid on the top. secured by welding The device has two handles for car-rving It. The device was covered with dust carbon and packed in a polythene sheet. It was filled with an anti-lifting device. The
height of the device Is eleven inches, diameter 16 inches and circumference four inches.
The device was very lethal, an official said "Four electric wires were jutting out from the sides of the cylinder shaped container, which Indicates connection to electric dentona-tors." he said.
The device Is now being examined by experts in Jessore C antonrnent.
Prime Minister Shidth Hasina who Is now on a two-day trip to GopalganJ told a function at Tunglpara yesterday evening." I am not afraid ol death as it is Inevitable and will come when Gori will desire. The Almighty Allah send people to the world to perforin some duties and they will not die till the work is done."
Jawadu) Karim. Press Secretary to the Prime Minister, told The Dally Star last night that despite detection of the device, the Prime Minister will keep her programme at GopalganJ unchanged She will address the scheduled rally at Shlekh Lut-fur Rahman Govt College at Ko-talipara this morning.
GopalganJ police, meanwhile. arrested three persons last night on charge of planting the explosive device, BSS rc-ported.