Police have recovered a specially constructed improvised explosive device (IED) from a travel bag left at a grocery shop in Ashulia, Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka. The device was later safely defused by the Bomb Disposal Unit of the police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Division.
According to Ashulia police station, at around 9:30 pm on Thursday, a man wearing a face mask entered a grocery shop in the Charabag area of Ashulia to buy a soft drink. He handed the shopkeeper a Tk200 note to pay for his purchase. As the shopkeeper did not have sufficient change, he went to an adjacent shop to exchange the note. When he returned, the customer had disappeared, leaving behind a locked travel bag.
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Source: Prothom Alo News
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