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Special Response Battalion-10 (SRB-10) has recovered 27 rounds of live shotgun ammunition, 13 tear-gas shells and seven sound grenades allegedly looted from police facilities in Faridpur during the July uprising in 2024.
The security force recovered the items during a raid on an abandoned building near an area adjacent to the Akh Centre field in Kanaipur around 3:45pm on Wednesday (Sept 30).
According to SRB-10, a team from its CPC-3 Faridpur camp conducted the operation based on confidential information. During a search of the abandoned building, the team found the ammunition and other security equipment lying abandoned.
A preliminary investigation indicated that the recovered ammunition, tear-gas shells and sound grenades were among items looted from different police stations and police boxes on Aug 5, 2024.
Further investigation is underway to determine how the items were taken there and whether anyone was involved in storing them.