2 held with pistol, bullets in Khulna

KHULNA, Mar 9: Police arrested two people along with a foreign-made pistol, 10 rounds of bullets, two magazines and cash amounting to Tk 1, 74,400 in Khulna City on Saturday night.

The arrests were made around 7 pm from the Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) area under Sonadanga Police Station (PS).

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sonadanga Model PS Rafiqul Islam said that a team of the police, along with members of the Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch, conducted a raid at a house on Madrasa Road opposite Khulna Medical College Hospital.

During the drive, the law enforcers recovered one foreign-made pistol, 10 rounds of bullets, two magazines and cash amounting to Tk 1,74,400 from a rented room of a three-storey building owned by Begum Rabeya.

In this connection, the tenants Mohammad Morshed Ali, 45, and Kazi Kabir Ahmed, 50, were arrested, the OC added.