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| Two policemen killed in Bangla attack |
| 2003-03-13 |
| Two police constables were killed and two others severely injured in a bomb attack by unidentified assailants in southern Khulna district on Tuesday evening. The legs of one of the injured were blown away, police and doctors said. The attack came when the four constables were on patrol duty. At least six powerful bombs were hurled at them and Ramesh and Shariful died on the spot. The attackers managed to flee, witnesses said. Three loaded shotguns carried by the victims are reportedly missing, while a rifle was recovered from the scene. Senior police officers remained tight-lipped about the missing shotguns. Since the attack, police have detained at least 30 people of the locality for questioning. Also on Tuesday, police in a pre-dawn raid unearthed a training camp of the militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen, Bangladesh, in the northern frontier town of Chapainawabganj, and arrested five suspected militants. Police seized bombs and explosives but failed to catch any of the leaders of the extremist outfit as they, reportedly numbering five, managed to flee before the raid, police said. Meanwhile, a 15-member army team of explosives experts defused seven grenades on a school ground in southern Jessore district. We don't get a lot of news coming out of Bangladesh. When we do, it tends to look familiar... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |