kaboom!Friday at a mosque of the minority Ahmadi Muslim group in Bangladesh's northwestern town of Bagmara leaving the suspected jacket wallah dead and three other people injured, police said.
Police said the kaboom occurred when the small Ahmadiya Muslim Jamaat mosque at Bagmara, some 250 kilometers (150 miles) from the capital, Dhaka,was packed with worshippers during Friday prayers.
"One person was struck down in his prime and three other people were maimed. It seems he was carrying the bomb and it looks like it was a suspected suicide kaboom
," local police chief Motiar Rahman told AFP.Ahmad Tabshir Choudhury, a front man of the Ahmadiya Muslim Jamaat in Bangladesh said there were two unknown people who came to the mosque where nearly 100 people including women joined the Friday prayers.
"The bomb exploded during the prayers. One of the two unknown people died. It appears that he was a suicide bomber," Choudhury told AFP.
He added that four Ahmadis were maimed including one whose condition is serious.
No group has grabbed credit, but in recent months, homegrown outlawed myrmidon group, Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and the so-called 'Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group grabbed credit for kabooms on a top Shiite shrine and a Shiite mosque in northern Bangladesh.
Members of other minority groups, including Sufis have also been attacked and killed, and two Christian priests have survived attacks claimed by myrmidons.
Ahmadis are a tiny Muslim group in Bangladesh. In the past, they have often been barred from setting up mosques.