250-kilo live bomb found near Dhaka Airport, experts believe bomb from 1971 Indo-Pak war
Officials have said that the construction workers had found it while excavating ahead of making the Hazrat Shahjalal International airport’s extended terminal.
| 16 Dec 2020 6:23 AM GMT
Dhaka: A 250-kilo live bomb was discovered on Wednesday, buried in a construction site not far from Dhaka s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HISA). Experts believe that the bomb was dropped during the 1971 war between India and Pakistan.
Officials have said that the construction workers had found it while excavating ahead of making the airport s extended terminal.
Once informed, the bomb disposal unit of the Air Force s Bangabandhu Base had arrived to defuse it, said the director of the Airport, Touhdi-ul-Ahsan. It was then taken to Rasulpur Firing Range in Pahakanchanpur for a safe and guided explosion.
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A 250-kg live bomb has been found buried at a construction site at the international airport here with experts speculating that the cylinder-like bomb was dropped sometime during Bangladesh's Liberation War against Pakistan in 1971. Construction workers detected the bomb on Wednesday during their excavation works for an extended terminal of Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal
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