Two held with firearms

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Detective Branch of police in separate drives arrested two alleged criminals and recovered two firearms and three bullets from their possession in Abhoynagar upazila and district town on Tuesday night. Police said, a team of Rab raided the town's bus stand area at 10:00pm and arrested a man along with a revolver and two bullets. The arrestee was identified as Shafiqul Islam Babu alias 'Polythene' Babu, son of Zihad Ali of the area. In Abhoynagar, detective police in a drive arrested an alleged criminal along with one shooter gun and one bullet from Ali Bazar area of the upazila on the same night. The arrestee was identified as Rony, son of Farhad Hossain of Kapashati village in the upazila.