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| Baghmara bomb similar to Mirpur grenades |
| 2015-12-28 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The remains of the bomb that went off in the Baghmara Ahmadiyya mosque on Friday have similarities with the hand grenades seized from a JMB den in Dhaka's Mirpur, an investigator has said. Seeking anonymity, a member of the police team investigating the mosque blast told the Dhaka Tribune that the outer shell of the bomb is a GI pipe connector. Galvanised Iron or GI pipes are generally used in water supply networks. The use of GI pipe connectors in making bombs was unheard of until now. The investigator also said that one end of the connector was sealed and the other end had a two-inch opening. Asked about kind of substance used in the bomb, Abul Kalam Azad, investigating officer of the Baghmara blast, said that they had sent samples to the Department of Explosives in Dhaka. Azad also said that he did not know anything about the similarities. Three days ago, during a 14-hour drive in a residential apartment in Dhaka's Mirpur, a joint team of law enforcers seized 17 handmade improvised grenades along with a huge cache of bomb-making parapharnalia. Sources said after the drive that the seized bombs were similar to those that were set off in the middle of a Shia procession preparation in Dhaka in October. These improvised grenades have pins just like military grenades but do not go off if the pin is removed; they explode only after hitting a hard surface. Until yesterday, local police have made very little progress in the probe into the mosque blast, with why the attack was made and who did it still unknown. Investigators are also not sure whether it was a suicide kaboom or if the bomb went of accidentally. Baghmara residents have told Dhaka Tribune's Kamrul Hasan, who is now in the area, that they had seen two unknown people standing outside the mosque and they quickly fled the area after the blast. Police are still to identify the young man who was carrying the bomb and got killed in the kaboom. Finger print samples have been sent to the office of Police's Special Branch in Dhaka who will match the samples with the information stored in the government's National ID database. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe. The window was looking better all the time.... Quantum Foundation yesterday administered the burial of the dead attacker at the Hatemkha graveyard in the Rajshahi city as the young man was still to be identified. Yesterday, Mubassirul Islam, national Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at of Bangladesh, visited the mosque and the three people who got injured in the kaboom. "An outsider carried out the attack in order to destablise and create division in the country's Muslim community," he said. Urging the government to find the criminal mastermind behind the attack, Mubassirul said: "The law enforcement agencies have some successes but they will have to show greater efficiency in fighting the murderous Moslems and exposing them." |
| Posted by:Fred |