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Bomb attack in Bangladeshi town | |
2005-12-08 | |
At least six people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a bomb blast in northern Bangladesh. The blast took place in a crowded street in the town of Netrakona, as police examined a suspicious package. The attack - apparently set off by two men on a bicycle - took place outside the office of a secular cultural group.
Last month, a powerful bomb exploded inside a library near a courthouse in Gazipur, leaving seven people dead and about 50 others injured - police described it as the country's first ever suicide bombing. In a second attack on the same day, three people, including an alleged bomber, were killed when a series of bombs went off outside a courthouse in the port city of Chittagong. The government blamed a banned militant group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, for the explosions and a series of earlier attacks. More than 400 people have been arrested but the BBC's Roland Buerk in Dhaka says the masterminds remain at large. The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen wants to establish Islamic law in Bangladesh. | |
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