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Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 466 people and filed 64 cases during regular operations across the capital in the 24 hours to Wednesday.
DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) Md Akter Hossain disclosed the information on Wednesday (November 11).
Of the total arrests, 30 were made in the Ramna division, 46 in Lalbagh, 56 in Wari, 64 in Motijheel, 80 in Tejgaon, 131 in Mirpur, 29 in Gulshan and 22 in Uttara. The Detective Branch (DB) arrested eight others.
During the operations, police seized 13 cocktails, nine petrol bombs, 950 grams of gunpowder, fragments of exploded petrol bombs, 17 fragments of exploded cocktails, 3,081 yaba tablets, 24 cans of beer and two bottles of foreign liquor.
They also recovered a bus, five motorcycles, 14 mobile phones and rescued one victim.
Akter Hossain said police conducted the operations in different areas under various police stations on Tuesday (November 10), recovering explosives, drugs and other evidence.
Further legal action against the arrestees was underway, he added.