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Grenade found at Savar

Model said to be more destructive

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Rab (Rapid Action Battalion) men recovered an anti-personnel handgrenade and 250 grams of cannabis from the house of a drug-peddler in Savar yesterday, 38 days after the recovery of another grenade from Aminbazar.
The grenade, identified as a HE-36 model, is said to be more lethal than other grenades recovered earlier in the country.
Rab sources said they had information that the drug-peddler, Nazrul Islam of Borodeshi village in Savar, along with his associates Anju and Pagla Faruk, was staying at his newly-built house with illegal firearms in his possession.
A 12-member team of Rab-4
started at midnight from their Paikpara office to conduct a raid on Islam's home, but did not find anyone there when they arrived at 1:10am.
Searching the house, the elite force found a HE-36 grenade and 250 grams of cannabis hidden under sand in the courtyard.
The Rab men then searched neighbouring houses for Nazrul, Anju and Faruq, but were unable to find any of them.
Rab explosive experts later took the grenade to Rab headquarters in Uttara for disposal.
News agency BDNEWS24 quoted a Rab expert as saying the grenade recovered yesterday is a defensive type of grenade used earlier by Bangladesh Army for
training purposes.
"There are two types of grenades - defensive and offensive. A defensive grenade is more destructive than an offensive one," the expert said, adding that this type of grenade is more lethal than other types of grenades recovered earlier in the country.
"Its body, which is made of iron, splinters when it explodes. The splinters can hit a target even 20 metres away from the point of explosion," the news agency quoted the Rab expert as saying.
It contains high explosives called BARATOL 80/20. It is 610 grams in weight while its height is 1.4 inches and its length 3 inches.
On January 9, the same battalion
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recovered an Arges model grenade and a piece of ivory from a man in the city suburb of Amin Bazar. The grenade was identical to those used in last year's August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue.