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Bangladesh
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.
Well, you can't have one of those in a future islamic state
Police at the scene say two men rode up on a bicycle and dropped a package on the street. Eyewitnesses say a big crowd had collected to watch the police examine the package thought to contain a bomb, when the explosion took place. "It was a terrible sight. People were screaming in pain all around," the Associated Press quoted a local journalist, Shymolendu Pal, as saying. One of the suspected bombers is dead and the other is among the injured police say. The wounded have been rushed to nearby hospitals and the condition of some of those injured is said to be serious.

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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