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11 powerful IEDs defused in Lakshmipur
Published : Thursday, 12 November, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Observer Online Report
A bomb disposal team from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has defused 11 powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hidden underground in milk tins in Raipur upazila of Lakshmipur district.
The explosives, comprising six large and five small IEDs, were defused on Thursday (November 12) afternoon in an abandoned agricultural field at Char Kachhia village in Dakshin Charbanshi Union, north of Billal Bepari's ferry ghat.
Police said the incident was linked to an earlier case involving a youth named Saiful Islam Sujon, who allegedly triggered panic by exploding crude bombs at Khaser Hat Bazar in Uttar Charbanshi Union on November 3. He later stabbed three people, including BNP leader Obaidullah.
Locals detained Sujon and handed him over to police. The following day, police showed him arrested in a case and sent him to jail through the Lakshmipur court.
Sujon, a resident of Bhola Sadar upazila, had been living as a tenant in the house where the explosives were found. Bomb-making materials were recovered from his rented room on Monday (November 9).
The case filed against Sujon also named seven other people, including Charbanshi Union BNP General Secretary Imam Hossain Gazi and his son Shamim Gazi, a former member-secretary of the upazila unit of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal.
According to police, two tin containers filled with explosives were recovered on Tuesday (November 10) afternoon from an underground pit in the courtyard of a rented house in Charbanshi village, Uttar Charbanshi Union. The house belonged to the late Abu Taher Sikder.
Police had guarded the containers since their recovery. Following a court order, they contacted the DMP's bomb disposal unit. A four-member team from the unit visited the scene on Wednesday (November 11) night and confirmed the presence of multiple powerful IEDs inside the containers.
Locals said Sujon and several other young men had been renting the house for nearly two months. They had built a thick enclosure around the property using bamboo and betel nut leaves and restricted access to the surrounding area. They rarely interacted with neighbours, leaving local residents largely unfamiliar with them.
Raipur Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Nizam Uddin Bhuiyan said Sujon had been detained and subsequently arrested in connection with the stabbing of three people.
He said bomb-making materials were recovered from Sujon's rented room, while two tin containers holding 11 bombs were found in the courtyard of the same house. The DMP bomb disposal team defused the explosives, which experts confirmed were powerful IEDs.
- MaT
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