Security beefed up at airports, port city

Security personnel at all three international airports in the country were kept on high alert, the Civil Aviation Authorities, Bangladesh officials said Monday.
The authorities also suspended movement of visitors who come at the airports to see off or to receive passengers.
The Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport director, Group Captain MK Zakir Hassan, said security measures at the airport have been ‘rearranged’.
‘…It is under my jurisdiction to rearrange security measures when necessity arises,’ he said without explaining for what reason the decision was taken suddenly.
He, however, did not answer whether any intelligence report were there about ‘possible acts of subversion’.
Airport armed police battalion senior assistant superintendent Alamgir Hossain Shimul said the authorities were restricting entry of visitors to the airport as part of stepped up security measures.
‘We are following the instruction from 10am,’ said the official.
The civil aviation ministry in a statement said ‘the security of the airport [HSIA] has been rearranged. And visitor movement has also been kept suspended due to complete repair and renovation work.’
A CAAB official, however, told New Age the security rearrangement was made in the wake of the ‘current situation.’
New Age Correspondent in Chittagong reported the Metropolitan Police tightened security measures at strategic locations, especially Shah Amanat International Airport.
Chittagong  Metropolitan Police additional police commissioner AKM Shahidur Rahman told New Age that ‘we have information that subversive activities will be carried out by suspected militant groups in the city very soon; hence we developed security measures to avoid any untoward incident.’
He said security measures were also beefed up at important places including the court, oil installations, bus terminals and railway station fearing ‘sabotage activities’.
The Sylhet correspondent reported MAG Osmani International Airport manager Hafiz Uddin Ahmed told New Age that henceforth no visitors would be allowed inside the concourse hall until further instruction.

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