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December 1, 2005
Bangladesh: Second Islamist Bombing At Courthouse - Two Dead
News from Monsters and Critics states that this morning, the courthouse at Gazipur, 80 miles southeast of Dhaka, the capital, has been attacked for a second time by a bomb, again left by a suspected suicide bomber.
Yesterday, an office of the Bar Association was hit by a suicide bomber, in a twin attack held at Gazipur and also Chittagong courthouses. The incidents yesterday were the first suicide bombings from Bangladesh, though a bomb attacker who killed two judges at Jhalakathi on November 14 did possess a second device strapped to one leg, which he later unsuccessfully tried to detonate when he was in custody in an ambulance.
The attack today took place as a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to evade having a body search by police. As well as causing two deaths, at least twenty people were injured in the blast.
The attack is believed to have been carried out by the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an Islamist group led by Abdur Rahman, which also carried out the earlier court attacks, as well as a series of nationwide bombings which took place on August 17.
UPDATE: The suicide bomber, according to the Daily Star, had pretended to be a tea vendor. It gave the account by a witness, Al Amin, a peon of the court:
"I saw a youth who looked like a tea vendor coming towards the gate with a flask and a bucket in one hand and some cigarette packets in a polyethylene bag on the other," Amin said.Another youth was following the "tea vendor" from a little distance, Amin told The Daily Star at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).
"I requested the policemen to body-search him as his movement seemed to be suspicious to me."
"Suddenly, he started running towards us and as soon as he pulled the flask cover, I heard a huge bang.
"As I collapsed, I heard the youth saying 'I will kill everyone', twice. This is all I can recall," Al Amin said with four splinters in his body.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 1, 2005 8:21 AM
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