Firearms seized at Harganga dorm

Police arrested six people, including three students, along with firearms, from two rooms of Shaheed Zia Hall of Harganga College in Munshiganj during a raid yesterday.

The firearms include two foreign made pistols, a pipe gun and an air gun, said Md Zayedul Alam, superintendent of police in Munshiganj.

Police also recovered parts of a .303 rifle, three magazines, 96 bullets, pipe gun making materials, a toy gun, two Chinese machetes, seven knives, a hacksaw blade and 33 bottles.

The arms and ammunition were found in rooms 205 and 408, which are occupied by Chhatra League leaders Nibir Ahmed, president of the college unit of Chhatra League, and Alamgir Hossain, general secretary of the unit.

In the absence of the hostel superintendent, lecturers Arifur Rahman and Suvashish Mondol were with the police during the raid.