Two suspected rebels were killed when a bomb they were making exploded in western Bangladesh, while riot police in the capital clashed with protesters angry over the government's failure to prevent a wave of bombings last week. At least a dozen protesters were hurt Saturday when riot police used batons to control the crowd in two neighborhoods in the capital, Dhaka. Police arrested 30 protesters, local media reports said. The protest was part of a daylong general strike called by opposition parties that blame Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's government for failing to prevent more than 100 homemade bombs from going off across the country on Wednesday. The blasts killed a rickshaw driver and a 10-year-old boy and injured 125 people.Meanwhile, two suspected Maoist rebels died Friday night when the bomb they were making exploded in an abandoned house in Kushtia district, 80 miles west of Dhaka, local police officer Awlad Hossain said.
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