3 bombs recovered near Chuadanga railway station
Blast injures girl in Naogaon, woman beggar held in Ctg
Star Report
Three bombs were recovered from a spot only 100 yards from Chuadanga Railway Station yesterday.Police are examining whether the recovered bombs have any similarity with the bombs that exploded recently in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, according to the UNB. Security has been beefed up here following the recovery of the bombs. Train passengers as well as the local people got panicked with the recovery of the bombs. Our staff correspondent from Rajshahi reported that a powerful bomb blast left a girl injured at Chawk Ramakantapur, a remote village of Manda upazila in Naogaon district, yesterday. Another bomb exploded shortly afterwards while police defused the live one of the two bombs recovered from the scene in the afternoon. Unknown persons left a bag containing the bombs near the cowshed of Dulal Hossain at the village and Dulal's 11-year-old daughter Sima first noticed it, police and locals said. As she took out one of the bombs, it dropped on the ground and exploded with a bang, causing serious burn injuries to her hands, face and legs. Another bomb exploded when curious villagers rushed to the scene hearing the first explosion and threw the bag toward a pond. No one was, however, injured in the second explosion. Police later recovered the bag from the pond and found two bombs. One of the bombs was already damaged and bomb experts of police defused the other. Injured Sima was admitted to Manda Health Complex. The bombs were powerful, police officials said, adding that they are investigating the matter. In Chittagong, the law enforcers are yet to trace the woman beggar suspected to have link with Tuesday's bomb blast at the Chittagong Railway Station that left one rickshaw-puller injured, reports our staff correspondent. The beggar, who gave the bag containing the bomb to the rickshaw-puller minutes before it went off, has remained missing since the incident. Police meanwhile picked up another woman beggar identified as Salma, who had been living in the station area for the last 15-20 days. Salma told the police that the suspected beggar is known as "Gendir Maa" and had been living in the area before Salma arrived there. Salma was produced before injured rickshaw-puller Munir who denied the possibility of Salma having links with the bomb blast. The right wrist of Munir was amputated after operation. The police carried out several search operations at different places taking Salma with them for "Gendir Maa" but to no avail.
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