Staff Reporter :
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered ten anti-tank rockets from a bunker at Satchhari National Park in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district on Saturday morning.
“The 40mm high explosive rockets can strike and destroy tanks and cars from 1,500-metre distance,” said RAB Legal and Media Wing Chief Mufti Mahmud Khan.
Ten Chinese-made rockets were recovered during the elite force’s raid which began from Friday evening and continued till Saturday afternoon, the RAB official said.
He could not say whether any terrorist or militant group had planned to use the rockets. “Separatist groups in the border region may have been stocking them.”
“Tipped off, a team of RAB-9 launched a drive in the Satchhari National Park on Friday evening and another team of the elite force from Dhaka joined the drive later,” said RAB-9 spokesperson Moniruzzaman.
Earlier, RAB conducted five raids in the park in 2014. Then the elite force recovered mortar shells, rocket launchers, machine guns and 14 crates of explosives from the park, which borders the Indian state of Tripura.
RAB also raided the area again in 2016, but found nothing.
Three cases have been filed over the weapons seizures.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered ten anti-tank rockets from a bunker at Satchhari National Park in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district on Saturday morning.
“The 40mm high explosive rockets can strike and destroy tanks and cars from 1,500-metre distance,” said RAB Legal and Media Wing Chief Mufti Mahmud Khan.
Ten Chinese-made rockets were recovered during the elite force’s raid which began from Friday evening and continued till Saturday afternoon, the RAB official said.
He could not say whether any terrorist or militant group had planned to use the rockets. “Separatist groups in the border region may have been stocking them.”
“Tipped off, a team of RAB-9 launched a drive in the Satchhari National Park on Friday evening and another team of the elite force from Dhaka joined the drive later,” said RAB-9 spokesperson Moniruzzaman.
Earlier, RAB conducted five raids in the park in 2014. Then the elite force recovered mortar shells, rocket launchers, machine guns and 14 crates of explosives from the park, which borders the Indian state of Tripura.
RAB also raided the area again in 2016, but found nothing.
Three cases have been filed over the weapons seizures.
