Firearms seized from bus

A joint team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police on Friday recovered two firearms from a passenger bus in Meherpur. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-6 and Meherpur Sadar police raided a Chudanga-bound passenger bus coming from Natore at around 5:30 pm. They searched the bus, seized a small size carton and found a shutter gun and a pistol in it it. Police said the firearms were being taken to Chuadanga for sell. The matter is now under investigation, said deputy assistant director of Rab-6 Nazim Uddin.