Four dead after blast, shooting at Bangladesh Eid prayers


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Dhaka, Jul 7 (PTI): Radical Islamists hurled crude bombs and engaged in a shootout with police in Bangladesh today that killed three people, including two policemen, and a terrorist at the country's biggest Eid gathering nearly a week after the deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe that left 22 people dead.

Bombs exploded near an Eid prayer gathering in Sholakia in northern Kishoreganj district where at least 200,000 people had gathered, police said.

Police said one constable was dead and at least 13 others were injured. A second policeman later succumbed to his wounds on way to hospital in neighbouring Mymensingh.

A woman was also killed during the shootout while she was witnessing the incident from the window of her house near the scene, the Prothom Alo newspaper reported.

One suspected attacker was also killed in the exchange of fire with police at the blast site as roads in the area were cordoned off.

"One suspect has been held and about 13 injured," said Abu Sayem, additional superintendent of police in Kishoreganj.

Local reports said six to seven people led the attack with sharp weapons on policemen when they were frisking people entering the Eidgah ground.

Kishoreganj ASP Obaidul Hasan said the blasts spread panic among thousands who were beginning to gather near the ground, but the prayers were not disrupted, bdnews24.com reported.

"That was probably a crude bomb. The facts are still unclear," he said. The incident comes close on the heels of last week's deadly attacks in Dhaka which killed over 22 people mostly foreigners including a 19-year-old Indian girl.

The Islamic State (IS) terror group yesterday issued a new chilling video warning the Bangladesh government of more attacks in the country and across the world until Shariah law is established globally, saying last week's gruesome attack here was just "a glimpse".

The video message believed to be issued from Raqqa, the stronghold of the terror group in strife-torn Syria was released on YouTube.

Islamist gunmen stormed a popular restaurant in Dhaka's posh diplomatic enclave late on Friday killing 22 people, most of them foreigners from Italy, Japan, India and the US in an attack claimed by the Islamic State.

The IS video has gone viral on social media among Bangladeshis still recovering from the shock of the brutal slaughter of 20 hostages and two police officers in Dhaka.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues., Frazer Town,Bangalore

    Fri, Jul 08 2016

    Too bad to have this killing incident that too during Eid prayers.

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  • Alphonso Rodrigues, Udupi

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    If you guys have been following. In recent times B'desh allowed IS to torture and kill minorities in their country. Never expected the Gun to point at them one day. Now relax.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Nashville

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    This madness is spreading ...

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  • Mw, Dubai

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    People are claiming as Muslims and killing only Muslims. ...strange isn't it...

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  • Shaad, Mangalore

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    This blast may inspired by Col Purohit and Prajna Singh's Malegao Masjid blast. Well, our Govt. take action against both instead of clean chit???

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  • kumar, udupi

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    shaad bhai if Col Purohit and Prajna Singh did those blasts they too are not hindus...like real muslim real Hindu also wont do terror activity..:D

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  • pircki, panchanabettu

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    you don't have any point/word for justification hence you are writing something which is not related to this attack.

    please note that we can judge it very well when it happen with us.

    there is no religion for terrorist/terrosim. they will kill any one bcoz they are mad people.

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  • Vantage Point, mangalore

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    On one side you kill people who don't read Quran on other side you kill people who read Quran...what is the point...psychos...

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  • UMMAR, MANGALORE

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    TERROR HAVE NO RELIGION, IF ISS IS THE ISLAM TERROR GROUP
    THEY NEVER ATTACK THE EID NAMAZ PLEASE DONT LINK TO ISLAM TO ISS

    EVERYONE CAN THINK ABOUT THIS AND UNDERSTAND THIS .

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  • Dev Kumar, Mangalore/New Delhi

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    Bangladesh now follow the line of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yeman, Afgahanistan and Pakistan.
    Nobody will be safe. More of concentratr on ZN speeches.

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  • jagdish, Mumbai, UAE

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    Brother... Understood your point. you mean to say Islam is against terrorism... ISIS founder and supporters says they are the true Muslims. Then it is duty of the Real muslims to show the world what is the truth.

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  • For Justice, Abu Dhabi / Ubar

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    Dear brother in your question itself there is answer to you.Who said that ISIS is created by Muslims? It is the creation of bloody Israel in cooperation with USA to defame Islam/Muslims in the name of religion.The so called CALIPHATE Abubakar Al Bagdadi himself trained in Israel as so his evil team.

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  • Victor, Mangalore

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    What about zakir naik ...he is also trained in Israel or US.Here we are thousand of terrorist not one person ..as per your saying All of them trained in US?

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  • Ravi, Kapu

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    Again Terrorism has no Religion. LOL

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  • Mw, Dubai

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    But nagpur have factories...

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  • Ravi, Kapu

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    Mw, Dubai
    Does this factory tell people to shoot people, behead them, do suicide bombing and so on?

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  • Mw, Dubai

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    Yes...take the example of malegawo...makkah masjid and ajmer shareef blast...

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  • V V , BAJPE/BAHRAIN

    Thu, Jul 07 2016

    Bangladesh is becoming west pakistan...india now surrounded by pakistan from both sides!!!!

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