Man held at Dhaka airport
Security personnel of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday arrested a union parishad chairman during check-in at the domestic terminal, for carrying a pistol with seven rounds of bullets.
Mohammad Masud Chowdhury is chairman of Fulshahara union of Chowgachha upazila in Jashore, said a top official of the airport.
Masud was a passenger of a Jashore-bound Novoair flight yesterday.
After primary interrogation, he was handed over to the local police station, for carrying the firearm and ammunition without prior declaration.
On February 24, one Polash Ahmed boarded a Biman flight with a “toy gun” and allegedly attempted to hijack the aircraft. He died during a commando operation after the aircraft landed at Chattogram airport.
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