Cocktail explosions, bus fires at various places including capital

Deputy Police Commissioner Md Aktar Hossain, spokesperson of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), has said cocktail explosions and incidents of setting fire to buses have taken place at various places in the capital. These incidents occurred at TSC of Dhaka University, Uttara, Mirpur, Farmgate and Tejgaon in the evening on Monday (November 9). Cocktail explosions also took place at Jagannath University on the same day. Besides, two buses of the same owner were set on fire in Kaliakair of Gazipur.

Four people have been arrested in the cocktail explosion incidents. Among them two are from the CMM Court area, one from Shyampur and one from the TSC area.

Cocktail explosions occurred in front of Shanto-Mariam University and World University in Uttara and in the area adjacent to the gate of Mirpur Government Bangla College. Fire was also set to a shop beside the gate of Bangla College. Besides, explosion incidents occurred in Mirpur-1 and Shah Ali police station areas.

Fire was set to a bus of Labbaik Paribahan under the Farmgate metro rail station around 6:40pm. Two cocktail explosions occurred in the Tejgaon industrial area at the same time, said Deputy Police Commissioner of Tejgaon Division Md Ibne Mizan.

Two cocktail explosions occurred between two buses in the parking area adjacent to the second gate of Jagannath University around 7:30pm. In this incident branch Chhatra Dal arrested a student of the university as a suspect. The arrested Rezwan Ahmed is a student of the 2021-22 academic year of the Psychology Department. He is primarily known to be an activist of Chhatra League.

Two buses of Ajmeri Paribahan were set on fire at Chandra Trimoor area of Kaliakair in Gazipur. One bus was set on fire in the evening on Monday. Earlier another bus of the same owner was set on fire at dawn. Two units of the Fire Service brought the fire under control after about half an hour of efforts. Police said the incidents will be investigated and legal action will be taken.