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49 cocktails recovered in Ashulia, 8 arrested
Our Correspondent, savar
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested eight men and recovered 49 cocktails and three axes in different areas of Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, yesterday.
One of the eight miscreants was arrested at a house in Polashbari along with the explosives and weapons, said Faijul Islam Mondol, Rab-4 company commander.
Following information gleaned from him, Rab arrested the others during separate drives.
The arrestees confessed that they were supposed to bring the ammunition to the capital to resist today's election, Faijul added.
Body found in capital
Staff Correspondent
An unidentified man's body was found in Balur Math area under Jheelmil project in the capital on Friday night.
Dakkhin Keraniganj police recovered the body which the law enforcers suspect had been buried in the sand there. The body had a suit on. The body could not be identified till yesterday evening.
It was sent to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital for an autopsy.
Talking to The Daily Star, Officer-in-Charge of Dakkhin Keraniganj Police Station lamaluddin Meer said on information, police went to the spot and recovered the body. There were injury marks on the head, he added.
The OC suspects that the man was killed elsewhere and the body was dumped in Balur Math area.
25 houses gutted in Ctg fire
Staff Correspondent, ag
Around 25 tin-shed houses with more than 150 rooms were gutted in a fire in Chittagong city's Patharghata yesterday.
The fire originated from an electric short circuit at one of the houses around 1:40pm and soon spread to the adjoining ones in C and B Colony slum, said Abdul Malek, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence, Chittagong.
Four fire fighting units from Nandankanan, Chandanpura, Lamabazar and Agrabad fire stations doused the blaze around 3:50pm.
One killed, another injured in gas cylinder blast
Staff Correspondent
A person was killed and another injured when a gas cylinder exploded in the capital's Daniya area yesterday afternoon.
Jostna Begum, 35, was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Injured Anwar Hossain, 22, lost his right hand in the blast.
Assistant Commissioner of Demra Zone Minhazul Islam said the blast took place around 5:00pm when Anwar was blowing up a balloon using a gas cylinder.
Anwar worked for a gas balloon vendor, the ground floor tenant of Jostna's two-storey house in Daniya Bazar.
Anwar's brother-in-law Shahidul Islam said Jotsna, who lived on the first floor, was coming downstairs when the explosion occurred and injured her badly.
Diagnostic centre, 6 shops gutted by fire in N'ganj
LINB, Narayanganj
A diagnostic centre and six shops were damaged as a fire broke out in NS Super Marker at Shiddhirganj in Narayanganj city yesterday.
Five people sustained injuries while dousing the fire.
Police said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a battery shop on the ground floor and soon spread to the adjacent ones including Medicare Diagnostic Centre on the first floor of the building. The victim owners claimed that the damage could be more than Tk 3.5 crore.
Fire fighters with the help of locals doused the fire after three hours at 8:00am.