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Published : 18 Dec 2015, 03:54 PM
Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate in a media statement said the two bombs were exploded in the mosque after Juma prayers on Friday.
“Devotees from outside the mosque came to offer prayers. Five to six people were slightly wounded in the explosions. They were given first aid and released,” it said.
The military’s press wing added in the statement that a man with several explosive devices that did not go off has been arrested.
“Interrogation and investigation are on,” the ISPR said.
bdnews24.com carried the news of the explosions at midday after Additional Commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police Devdas Bhattacharya had confirmed it.
Neither the Navy nor the ISPR would provide the curious press with any information immediately; they only released the media statement in the evening.
Hordes of media descended on the base’s main gate and the hospital gate on the news of the blasts but they were denied access.
Many police officials were also seen standing outside the gate.
A Navy official later told journalists to leave, adding that they would be “briefed about everything from Dhaka. No one will say anything here.”
Besides Devdas Bhattacharya, those who visited the base after the explosions include CMP Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mandal, Detective Branch’s Deputy Commissioner (North) Kusum Dewan, Deputy Commissioner (Port) Moktar Ahmed, Special Branch Deputy Commissioner Moazzem Hossain Bhuyian, Assistant Commissioner (Port) Jahidul Islam, RAB-7 Commander Lt Col Miftah Uddin and EPZ Police Station OC Abul Kalam.
A vehicle rushing police’s Bomb Disposal Unit personnel and an ambulance of the Bangladesh Army went inside the base immediately after the incident.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal declined to comment when journalists, at the end of a programme in Dhaka’s Suhrawardy Udyan in the afternoon, asked him about the explosions.
