7 held with bullets, explosives in capital

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained seven people with bullets and explosives in their possession after raiding the capital's Jatrabari and Mohakhali areas on Tuesday night and yesterday morning.
A Rab-10 team arrested six people at Mominbagh of Jatrabari with 100 grammes of sulphur, 50 grammes of gunpowder, and one kilogramme of another bomb making substance, said the operation officer Capt Riadul Islam.
He said the detainees--Mostafizur Rahman, 32, Rafikul Islam, 26, Mohsin, 30, Abdus Sattar, 32, Alim Miah, 25, and Jamal Hossain, 25--were professional makers of bombs and cocktails and suppliers of explosives.
"They were trying to produce bombs and cocktails for pickets who use these during political programmes," said the Rab official. "We are yet to discover their affiliations with any political party or any gang of snatchers."
In another raid, Rab-1 men arrested a youth with some explosives and 11 bullets at Sattola Bosti in Mohakhali area, said Abhishekh Ahmed of Legal and Media Wing of Rab. He, however, did not disclose any detail of the youth for the sake of investigations.