Dhaka, June 30 -- Local Government and Rural Development Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan carried a magazine mistakenly to the airport but it was not from an AK-47 rifle, said Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday.

"It was a magazine, not an AK-47," he said responding to questions from reporters after a meeting of the law and order core committee at the Secretariat, reports UNB.

How it went undetected during the initial airport screening is currently under investigation, he said.

Earlier on Saturday, a firearm's magazine containing a single bullet was recovered from the travel bag of adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

The incident went viral on social media a...