The Police Headquarters on Saturday said that law enforcers had recovered 53 firearms and arrested 25 people in the ongoing joint operations from midnight past Wednesday till Saturday morning.
Of the recovered firearms, two were revolvers, 18 pistols, two rifles, 11 shotguns, one pipe gun, six shooter guns, three LGS, one 鈥榖anduk鈥�, one AK-47, one gas gun, one Chinese rifle, one air gun and three single barrel breech loaders, according to a police headquarters release issued on Saturday.
The joint forces, combining members from the military, police, Rapid Action Battalion, Border Guard Bangladesh, and Ansar, are involved in the drives to recover illegal firearms and ammunition along with bringing the drug peddlers to book.
Police headquarters public relations officer AKM Kamrul Ahsan said that they had yet not specified which of the recovered arms were looted and which were unlicensed.
鈥榃e cannot make specific lists of the recovered arms right now,鈥� Kamrul told 抖阴精品.
The home ministry on Saturday said that total 5,818 weapons of different types were looted, and 3,993 were recovered till September 5.
The police have yet to recover 1,885 weapons and 2,94,405 rounds of ammunition, the police headquarters added.聽
Most of the arms were looted after August 5, the day then prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India.
At least 44 police were killed mostly after the fall of Hasina regime.