Information About Incident 63430-127842-324225 in Tangail Bangladesh

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Detectives arrested a gang of seven arms smugglers from Mirpur and Mohammadpur areas of Dhaka city on May 23, reports The Daily Star.

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• Meta Location: Mirpur Mohammadpur Dhaka
• Matched District: Tangail
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Detectives
• Subject: a gang of seven arms smugglers from Mirpur and Mohammadpur areas of Dhaka city

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Detectives arrested a gang of seven arms smugglers from Mirpur and Mohammadpur areas of Dhaka city on May 23, reports The Daily Star. They recovered six firearms, 28 bullets and 200 Yaba tablets from the arrestees. The arrested smugglers were identified as Mobarak Hossain Masud (30), Shahidul Islam Khokon (32), Fakhrul Islam Apu (31), and Sumon Hossain, 24, Halima Akhter Liza, 22, Imran and Indian national Suchandra Rabeya, (19). Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), Sanwar said that Apu was an activist of the Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, a major front organisation the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in Comilla town (Comilla District) and had been involved in arms smuggling for around seven years. An opposition leader of the city s Mirpur area had asked Apu to bring him 15 firearms before the upcoming elections. Apu had already supplied him two firearms. said, ADC. ADC further said that about 70 percent of Apu s recently smuggled arms had been supplied to political leaders in and outside the capital. The ADC however could not ascertain the number of arms Apu had supplied. We are trying to figure out the number of political leaders who had received the arms, he said, adding that they had already got names of some political leaders but could not disclose those for the sake of investigation .

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