Police recovered a “bomb-like object” from the second floor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka today.

The object was a glass bottle, with a wick and liquid in it, Md Abul Hassan, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, told The Daily Star.

The law enforcers recovered it from in front of the registrar’s office of BSMMU this morning, the OC said.

Contacted, Maruf Hossain Sorder, deputy commissioner (Ramna division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said, “We are investigating into the incident and analysing whether the bottle is a bomb or not”.