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| Bangladesh |
| Bangla Body Count |
| 2005-11-29 |
| Bomb blasts in two Bangladesh cities have killed two policemen and injured 40 people. Police said bombs exploded at a police checkpoint outside a court building in the port city of Chittagong on Tuesday, killing two policemen and the suspected bomber, and injuring 16 people. The blasts occurred just before the court opened at 9am (0300 GMT). Another three people were killed in Gazipur, 30km north of the capital Dhaka, when a powerful bomb went off in a court complex, local hospital doctor Shafiqul Islam said. That blast wounded 25 people, mostly lawyers, police said. The explosions in both cities occurred at about the same time. Habibur Rahman, a doctor at Chittagong Medical College hospital, said 16 people, some of them in a critical condition, were being treated at the hospital. Chittagong is 216km southeast of Dhaka. Bangladesh has been hit by a spate of bombings blamed on banned Islamic group Jamatul Mujahidin Bangladesh. The group seeks to establish Islamic rule in the Muslim-majority country, which is governed by secular laws. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |