Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday seized huge quantity of crackers and explosives from a house at Becharam Deuri in old Dhaka.
Rab men also arrested Mir Shajahan, 35, in this connection, said a Rab press release.
Following information that a gang at Becharam Deuri under Kotwali Police Station stocked huge quantity of explosives and were planning to conduct some criminal activities, a team of Rab-10 raided a house at Noor Box Lane and arrested Shajahan with the explosives and firearms at 2:00am.
The seized items include six kg sulphur, 200 gm gunpowder, 5,000 crackers, 700 gm aluminium powder, 60 kg potassium nitrate, 15 kg charcoal, one kg iron dust, three kg calcium carbonate, detonating wire, an airgun and 50 small knives.
The Rab men also picked up Humayun, 40, and Habibullah, 33, for selling crackers.
Kotwali police could not give any details about the incident as Rab was yet to handover the arrestee and the recovered goods to the police station as of filing this report at 8:00pm.




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