Nk Barta Online Desk:

Police arrested five people along with firearms, bullets and drugs in a raid at Senbagh-Sonaimuri in Noakhali. Meanwhile, 5 foreign pistols, 8 LG, 4 single-barreled guns, 9 pistol magazines, 277 rounds of pistol bullets, 12 kg of ganja and 2 pickups were seized.

The arrested are Badal Hossain (21) of Chichani Tobga village of Chatkhil district, Md. of Ruitkhali village of the same upazila. Robin (28), Sonaimuri Deoti village Md. Bahar (30), Anwar Hossain (26) of Hajipur Union in Begumgenj and Murad Hossain (22) of Bagmara North Union in Comilla.

Chittagong Range DIG said this information to journalists in a press briefing organized at Noakhali Superintendent of Police office on Tuesday (November 5) afternoon. Ahsan Habib Palash. Earlier, they were arrested from Sebarhat Bazar and Sonaimuri in Senbagh of the district on Monday night.

According to the police, on Monday night, on the basis of secret information, the policemen of Begumganj Model Police Station and Senbagh Police Station set up a check post on the Noakhali-Feni Regional Highway in front of Sebarhat Sayed Plaza in Senbagh and started searching the suspect vehicle. A pickup with 12 kg of ganja was seized at the check post around 1 am. Then around 1.30 am, 3 people were arrested with 10 indigenous firearms hidden in polythene packets inside the pickup. Later, the armed accused were brought to the police station for extensive questioning and they said that they had supplied some more sophisticated pistols from a person in Deoti village of Sonaimuri 3-4 days ago.

The police also said that on the basis of such information, the police arrested Bahar of Sonaimuri. Later, according to his commentary, 5 foreign pistols with 9 magazines, 2 domestically made LG, 277 rounds of pistol bullets were seized while hidden in a plastic bucket in the kitchen of expatriate Zafar Mia. 

Additional DIG Neshar Ahmed, Noakhali Superintendent of Police also attended the press briefing. Abdullah Al Farooq.