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FIREARMS-DRUGS-SEIZURE (with picture)
Siblings held with firearms, drugs in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, April 26, 2021 (BSS)- Police in an anti-crime operation arrested two brothers with firearms and drugs from Haragram area under Kasiadanga Police Station in Rajshahi city early this morning.
The arrested were identified as Bappy Hossain, 24, and his brother Badhan Hossain, 15, from Achintala area.
On a tip-off, a team of police conducted a sudden raid in the area around 2.25 am and arrested them. Subsequently, the police team recovered a foreign pistol, a single barrel pipe gun, 135 yaba tablets and 28 grams of heroin from their possessions.
Assistant Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Meer Mohsin Masud Rana said the arrested were in the position of selling firearms and drugs before the police raid.
A case was recorded with Kasiadanga Police Station in this connection and the arrested along with the seized firearms and drugs were handed over to police.
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