92 cocktails and gunpowder recovered in Chapainawabganj

Special Response Battalion (SRB) has recovered 92 cocktails, 11.8 kg of gunpowder-like substance, two hasuas and various materials for making explosives from a mango orchard in Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila.

Based on intelligence information, an operational team of SRB's CPC-1, Chapainawabganj, conducted the operation with support of the bomb disposal team of SRB-5, Rajshah, at a mango orchard in East Tikra village of Maharajpur Union in Sadar Upazila at 2.05am today.

SRB said that no suspects were found at the scene and surrounding areas during the operation. No one has been arrested in this incident so far.

SRB believes that miscreants had stored the materials there with the intention of creating sabotage in different parts of the country.

The recovered materials have been handed over to Chapainawabganj Sadar Police Station for further legal action.