Grenade recovered from Ishwardi pond

Ishwardi (Pabna) Correspondent :
An abandoned grenade was recovered while digging a pond in Ishwardi. The police surrounded the place after burying the grenade. The grenade was found in a pond during excavation work in the MS Colony three-storey area of the city railway on Wednesday (May 8) night. Later, when the matter was reported to the police, the police buried the grenade.
Eyewitnesses said that a fish farmer named Khokon was digging a pond in the field next to the third floor of Railway MS Colony. The workers finish work and leave in the afternoon. A child named Swarna, a third class student, went behind the house every evening and brought home an iron ball-like object with a red tape wrapped around the top as a toy near the pond. His father Subas Das alias Dhala mistook the spherical object for a grenade. In fear of danger, put the washed round object in the previous place and call the emergency service number 999 and report the matter.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Ishwardi police station Rafiqul Islam said that during the war of independence in 1971, the area was occupied by Pakistani forces Dosar Razakar, Al Badr and Al Shams. At that time the grenade went unexploded on the spot and fell on the ground. It came out by digging the soil. The grenade is buried in the ground. RAB’s bomb disposal team has been informed to defuse the grenade. The team is expected to reach the spot on Thursday to defuse the grenade.