Teenage boy arrested with arms, bullets
Police arrested a teenage boy along with a foreign made pistol, its 100 bullets and a magazine at Deohata in Mirzapur upazila yesterday.
Habibullah Sarker, OC of Mirzapur police station said, acting on secret information, police were searching different vehicles at Deohata on Dhaka-Tangail highway from early morning.
After sometime, police halted Benazir Ahmed, 19, son of Mozibor Rahman of Kaliganj village under Shibganj PS in Chapainawabganj district, on suspicion. They challenged him as he was passing the area in a bicycle and trying to avoid police search.
They recovered 100 bullets kept inside the tube of the bicycle wheel and a 7.6 mm foreign pistol and a magazine from his possession.
Police said Benazir is an arms peddler. He confessed to police that he got down from a bus along with the bicycle on his way to Dhaka.
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