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Stolen weapons during July Uprising recovered

 Staff Correspondent
 Published: 12:02 AM, 14 September 2026
NARAYANGANJ: Narayanganj City Corporation Administrator Advocate Sakhawat Hossain Khan joins students in a dengue prevention campaign at an educational institution in the city on Saturday.

A 9mm pistol, two magazines and 20 rounds of ammunition have been recovered from the second floor of a mosque at Araihazar Bazar in Narayanganj. Police said the pistol was among the weapons looted from Araihazar Police Station during the July-August 2024 student-led mass uprising.

The weapons and ammunition were found abandoned on a shelf used to keep copies of the Quran on the southern side of the second floor of Araihazar Bazar Mosque in Araihazar Municipality on Saturday .

Mosque muezzin Nasir Uddin spotted the items and later took them to Araihazar Police Station, where he handed them over to Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Sabzel Hossain.

Araihazar Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Shafiul Islam said the recovered 9mm pistol was initially confirmed to be a police firearm looted from the station during the July-August 2024 student-people movement. legal proceedings regarding the recovered firearm and ammunition are underway.