Floating people under scanner

Police are preparing a list of floating people and street-hawkers in Chittagong to ensure foolproof security ahead of the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup cricket tournament. The Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) have already started work by collecting information on the shanty-dwellers, pavement-dwellers and sheer vagabonds living on both sides of the railway track in the port city’s Dewanhat area. CMP Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operation) Banaj Kumar Majumder said that the gathered information would be later included in the police department’s database. On December 7 last year, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) withdrew their Under-19 national squad from a 7-match limited overs series underway in Bangladesh citing security reasons after a bomb explosion outside the hotel of the West Indian touring team in Chittagong. The bombing sparked security fears over the arrangement of the Twenty20 tourney in Bangladesh. Besides, police officials said that acts of sabotage had been carried out by using/involving the floating people in different parts of the city before the Jan 5 parliamentary elections. The Twenty20 World Cup will be held in Dhaka and Chittagong from Mar 16, according to bdnews24.com.