Firearms seized in Rajshahi, Natore

30 November 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have recovered four firearms and two bullets from different places in Rajshahi and Natore districts in two days. On a tip-off, Rab raided three places and recovered the arms and ammunition in an abandoned state. A Rab team from Rajshahi railway colony recovered a Burmese shutter gun and a pipe gun with two bullets from Bara Adimpur of Shingra upazila in Natore district on Saturday. The same team recovered a locally made pipe gun from behind a house at Hajpur in Rajshahi city on Friday. On the same day, another Rab team from Binodhpur camp recovered an Indian shooter gun from near a house at Ekborpur village of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district. Earlier, Rab arrested two arms traders -- Gias, 36, of Joypur and Muhammad Ali, 27, of Halidagachhi of Charghat upazila from Halidagachhi on November 24. A foreign made pistol and two magazines loaded with seven bullets were also recovered from possession of the arrestees.