News Desk :
Police have arrested four people accused of detonating crude bombs across Dhaka, including the offices of the deputy commissioner and returning officer, and engaging in sabotage and arson.
The suspects have been identified as Ashiqur Rahman Panna, former Swechchha Sebak Dal joint convener Shafiqul, Sumon Hossain Rony, and Billal Hossain, reports bdnews24.com Ramna police arrested them from Dhaka’s
Paltan and Mugda, and Munshiganj’s Gazaria area on Tuesday night.
The details of the arrests were presented by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner K Mohid Uddin at a media briefing on Wednesday.
“On Nov 30, the last day for submission of nomination papers for the 12th parliamentary election, criminals targeted the office of the Dhaka deputy commissioner and returning officer in an attempt to disrupt the election process and stir panic,” he said.
Ramna police collected CCTV footage and began analysing it immediately after the incident, he added.
The footage revealed that Ashiqur had thrown a crude bomb at the deputy commissioner’s office from the roof of the National Board of Revenue building on its eastern side.
Panna took the stairs up to the roof carrying a red-and-white shopping bag and exited the building empty handed after detonating the bomb.