With the country heading towards local government elections, the government has launched a special nationwide drive to recover looted and illegal firearms.

Identities of informants will be kept strictly confidential, it says

Detective Branch (DB) claims to have arrested a member of the transnational syndicate that involved in selling firearms into grey market after smuggling those from India.

Cops recover 97 pistols, 189 magazines, 1,000 bullets, 11 bayonets from a canal near Buddhist temple in Uttara of Dhaka. Drive is still going on.