Dhaka, July 1 -- Home affairs adviser Lt Gen, retd, Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday said that 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.

'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 Bangladesh Secretariat.

How it went undetected during the initial airport screening is currently under investigation, he said. The incident went viral on social media after the UK-based Bangladeshi journalist Zulkarnain Saer posted a video shot on the airport's security cameras, sparking uproar.

The authorities, however, have been instructed to exercise g...