Security in diplomatic zone in city beefed up
Security measures were beefed up at the diplomatic zone in Baridhara-Gulshan in the capital yesterday after militants Thursday night issued threats to blow up four embassies.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner AKM Shahidul Huq told The Daily Star, "Unknown criminals sent faxes to the embassies of USA, Canada, Britain and Australia threatening to blow them up. They claimed to be Jemaah Islamiyah al-Qaeda but we are not sure whether there is any such organisation."
"Following this, we held separate coordination meetings with those embassies," the DMP commissioner said, adding, "Security measures have been beefed up with the deployment of additional forces, increased intelligence vigilance and setting up of police check posts."
AKM Hafiz Akter, deputy commissioner (DC) of Gulshan zone, said, "Such threats are issued often and security measures are also beefed up. We are taking this seriously and police patrol in the area has also been increased."
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Gulshan Police Station Kamrul Alam Mollah said they have increased the number police check posts to avert any subversive acts.
According to sources, the unknown criminals demanded $100,000 for releasing their "German bomb engineer" detained in Malaysia. They also demanded that the embassies shut down their activities within seven days otherwise they would carry out attacks against them.
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