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| Bangladesh bomb kills four family members |
| 2007-01-14 |
| A bomb exploded in a western Bangladesh slum Saturday, killing a woman and her three daughters, police and a media report said. The blast happened in Chapainawabganj town, 230 kilometres west of the capital, Dhaka, as the children – ages 4 to 8 – were playing with a metal container that held the explosive, local police official Mohammad Abdul Kader told The Associated Press by telephone from the district. "Honey! Have you seen my bomb?' "I put it in a metal container, sweety! It's in the kids' room!" The blast happened in the family’s home, Kader said. The mother, a 35-year old identified only as Mariam, had picked up the container from a nearby bus station where she had previously worked as a sweeper, the United News of Bangladesh agency reported, quoting other family members. Two children died at the scene, and Mariam and another daughter died on their way to hospital, the agency said. Security officials later recovered three other bombs from a rubbish bin near the bus stop, Kader said. Police have cordoned off the scene and alerted the residents of the congested slum where low income people, mainly day laborers and rickshaw-pullers, live, Kader said. “We’re trying to find out how the explosives came there,” he said, adding that no one has been arrested yet in connection with the blast. Islamist militants seeking sharia law in mainly Muslim Bangladesh killed at least 30 people and wounded 150 in a spate of countrywide bomb blasts in the second half of 2005. But their campaign suffered a blow after top leaders were arrested early last year and there have been no major bombings since then. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I don't know, Jackal; since Mom was a sweeper, it is probably a good bet that she wasn't at the top of the pay scale and had 'first dibs' on anything that was left behind. Assuming that the metal box could have a future use in her house, that is what she did. The only positve note, perhaps her actions saved a higher number of casualties if it had gone off at the bus station. |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2007-01-14 19:44 |
| #1 Nits make lice. If they had grown up, they would likely have been Islamic murderers. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-01-14 10:50 |