, 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.

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.

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