Police recovered roughly a sack of abandoned ammunition from a drain in the Bayezid police station area of Chattogram. City Corporation sanitation workers spotted the items while cleaning a drain in Banglabazar, on Lane 5 of the BSRM area, on Saturday afternoon, and informed police. Bayezid police then went to the site and recovered the sack.

Police said the recovered ammunition was not fresh. Mohammad Hasan Mostafa Swapan, deputy commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police’s North Division, said ammunition generally has two parts: a cartridge casing and a bullet or projectile. He said the sack contained one of those two parts, without specifying which part was found.

The deputy commissioner said further details would be known after examining the scene. Police have begun an investigation to determine where the ammunition came from, why it was left in the drain, and who may have been involved. The source did not state the quantity of individual items recovered or identify any suspects.