BANGLADESH

Police recovered an AK-47 assault rifle and bullets from frontier Painhata village at Nalitabari's Ramchandrakora Union in Sherpur on Monday.

"We recovered the rifle and 20 bullets from the kitchen of one Nibash Marak's residence around 5am," Mohammad Anisur Rahman, superintendent of Sherpur police, told .

Tipped-off, they raided the residence, the police official said.

He said the weapon and ammunition, wrapped with a piece of white cloth, was packed in a plastic bag and buried in the floor of the kitchen.

Nibash Marak, the owner of the residence, fled before the raid, he said, adding that details would be revealed in a press briefing later on.