Cocktail explosion at CMM court premises, 2 detained
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A cocktail explosion has occurred on the premises of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court in Dhaka. Police have detained two people at the scene in connection with the incident. A motorcycle used by them has also been seized.
The incident took place on Monday evening (November 9). Deputy Commissioner of Police (DC) Mahiuddin Mahmud Sohel of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Prosecution Division confirmed the information.
Earlier, on Sunday evening, cocktail explosions occurred on the Dhaka University (DU) campus as well as at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in Malibagh and at Pallabi Police Station in the capital. No one was killed or injured in these incidents, but a member of the Special Response Battalion (SRB) had received minor injury in the explosion at Pallabi Police Station.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Ariful Alam Arif of Paltan Police Station confirmed the cocktail explosion at the CID headquarters. He said that miscreants threw the cocktail from atop the Malibagh Flyover. It fell on a vehicle of the Special Branch inside the CID office and exploded. An investigation is underway to determine who carried out the attack. Meanwhile, according to Pallabi Police Station sources, two unidentified individuals came on a motorcycle and threw a cocktail from the flyover into the police station. After the explosion, a piece of the cocktail hit the body of a member of SRB-4 stationed at the police station. He was slightly injured.
On Sunday evening, cocktail explosions occurred in at least five locations on the Dhaka University campus. Shahbagh Police Station has said that three people have been detained on suspicion of involvement in these incidents.
The detained individuals are Rezaul Karim (42), Sohel Rana (33), and Nazmus Sad (33).
According to eyewitnesses, around 6:00 PM, two cocktails exploded in the area adjacent to the Senate Building and the field of Hajee Mohammad Mohsin Hall of the university. A short while later, two consecutive explosions occurred in the TSC area. Later, another cocktail exploded on the road leading to Shahbagh.
Finally, around 6:50 PM, another cocktail explosion occurred on the road in front of the DUCSU building.
