Grenade on busy road defused

Police have defused a grenade that they spotted on a footpath opposite Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the capital hours after Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death for his war crimes of 1971.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 28 Feb 2013, 08:45 AM
Updated : 28 Feb 2013, 09:40 AM

"The bomb was defused by exploding it on the footpath," said Detective Police’s Assistant Commissioner (Bomb Disposal Unit) Sanowar Hossain.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam said it was not possible to remove from the footpath.

It was around 3pm that police got information about a bomb-like object lying abandoned on the footpath in front of the hotel.

Asked about the type of the grenade, Islam had said, "We can tell you that only after examining its substances."

He said the law keepers had been ordered to stay more alert as the grenade was found near the 'Ganajagaran Mancha' at Shahbagh where the mass agitation have been going on for 24 days now in demand of awarding death sentence to all the convicted war criminals and slapping a ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami.

The grenade was found amid reports of crude bomb explosions elsewhere in the city immediately after the death verdict for Sayedee.

Police also fired blank shots at Matijheel to prevent a gathering of the activists of the Islamist party and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir.