Authorities at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have detained an Awami League leader from the domestic terminal for carrying ammunitions without declaring them.
ABM Majharul Enam, president of the ruling party’s Darussalam unit, was found carrying 44 rounds of bullets, passing through security scanners around 10:15am on Sunday, said Additional Superintendent of Police (Operation and Media), Alamgir Hossain, of the Armed Police Battalion’s airport unit.
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He said Majharul was trying to board a flight of Regent Airways bound for Cox's Bazar when he was apprehended.
Alamgir said, according to rules, anyone carrying arms and ammunition must declare it to airport authorities in advance, but the Awami leader was boarding the flight without following the procedure.
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The authorities later handed over Majharul to Airport Police.
Sunday’s was the latest in a series of similar incidents at Dhaka airport, which raised eyebrows among safety experts.
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The issue of airport security got into the limelight after 23-year-old Md Palash Ahmed hijacked a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight with a fake gun, after the Dubai-bound plane took off from Dhaka and was heading to Chittagong on February 24.
Even after that incident, multiple security breaches took place at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the last month, where some passengers accidentally carried licensed firearms past security before declaring them, which went undetected.
