A pressure cooker wrapped in black tape and found in an open field beside a mosque in Savar today was identified as a powerful bomb and later defused.
“It was a very powerful bomb. Senior officials will brief the media in detail about the matter,” Savar Police Station Inspector (Investigation) Nur Mohammad told The Daily Star over the phone.
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Bomb Disposal Unit reached the scene at around 1:45pm and ordered the evacuation of the entire area.
The device was defused at around 3:28pm. A loud blast shook the area as the bomb was neutralised, triggering panic among residents.
“We did not know the bomb was so powerful. When it was neutralised, the loud blast shook the area. We were terrified,” said Nibir Hossain, a local businessman who was about 500 metres from the scene.
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According to police, local residents had earlier found the pressure cooker inside a blue plastic drum at the field of Laltek Ghora Mosque last night. Residents subsequently removed the pressure cooker from the drum and placed it on the field.
Police first went to the spot at around 8:00am today after receiving a call on the emergency service number. They cordoned off the area and alerted the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) Bomb Disposal Unit.
