Firearm, bullets found

Our Correspondent, Kurigram
Police recovered a 3.3-rifle, 277 bullets and 16 magazines from Miapara, a frontier village of Shimulbari union under Phulbari upazila yesterday morning. Police said a labourer, Abdur Rashid, while digging earth in a bamboo garden of one Abdul Latif at the village, found a wooden box at about 10.00am. The box was brought to UP chairman Md Shariful Islam who informed the police. Later, the law enforcers seized the arms and ammunition from the box. However, no one was arrested, said Md Abdul Monayem, officer in-charge of Phulbari police station.