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The bomb, recovered from the third terminal under construction at Shahjalal International Airport, was defused at the Rasulpur Air Force firing range in Tangail’s Madhupur forest.
It was deactivated at 12:05 p.m. Thursday by a team of Air Force bomb disposal experts.
Flight Lieutenant of the Air Force. A team of 9 people led by Azam arrived at the shooting range with the recovered bomb on Wednesday night.
In the morning, the camp was dug deep into the ground and buried there. The commander of the Alam firing range confirmed the incident.
Witness Bhajan Chandra Haldar, leader of the fire service team, said the area was rocked by the blast. The detonated part of the bomb went high. A lot of depth is created in the part buried in the ground.
Members of various levels of the Air Force and the Madhupur Fire Service team were present when it was deactivated.
An object resembling a general purpose (GP) bomb weighing 250 kg was found underground during the pile-up at the construction site of the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 9 am on Wednesday. The Bomb Disposal Unit from Bangabandhu Air Force Base rushed to the scene and defused the bomb.
Later, the air force moved the base to the Rasulpur firing range in Paharkanchanpur with the necessary precautions to demolish the bomb in a safe place. Bomb experts believe it was thrown to the ground in 1971 during the liberation war.
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