Bombs, raw materials seized from Shibir controlled dorms
Police recovered six crude bombs, 16 machetes, five kilogrammes of gun powder, a huge amount of bomb making materials and projectiles from two Shibir dominated dormitories at Chittagong College in the city yesterday.
On information from Bangladesh Chhatra League that four of its activists of the college unit had been confined to Suhrawardy and Sher-e-Bangla hostels by Shibir, the law enforcers conducted the drive there.
However, the BCL activists Joynal, Sanjoy, Toha and Sohrab had been released before police reached the spot, BCL sources said.
Mohiuddin Masum, storekeeper of Suhrawardy Hostel, was detained, said Nezam Uddin, inspector (investigation) of Kotwali Police Station.
Shibir activists of the college unit are on the run, said police.
Denying the allegations, Salauddin Mahmud, general secretary of Chittagong city unit of Shibir, told The Daily Star that the incidents were staged, by BCL and police.
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