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459 blasts in 63 districts in 30 minutes
2 killed; 100 hurt; all explosives were time bombs; Jama'atul Mujahideen leaflets found
In an unprecedented scale of terror attacks, a banned Islamist militant group yesterday simultaneously blasted at least 459 time bombs in 63 of 64 districts across the country.
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Sudden terror dims the city midday
Only half an hour into the explosions yesterday the entire city was seized by a whirling tumult of panic and speculations. Frightened citizens had no clue to what happened, but rumours were numerous.
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Agencies admit their failure
Intelligence and law enforcing agencies at a meeting with the state minister for home conceded their virtual failure to prevent the orchestrated countrywide bomb blasts yesterday, saying the incidents
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How all hell broke loose
Eyewitnesses narrate the terror strike
Yesterday's near-simultaneous countrywide bomb blasts left a great many people -- from beggars to lawyers -- severely injured, petrified and shocked from such a close proximity to death.
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Attacks were motivated by domestic issues
Observe foreign analysts
Foreign analysts have commented that the series of explosions in Bangladesh were probably motivated more by domestic issues than international politics, but the government can no longer deny there isan
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Leaflets ridicule democracy, ask for Islamic rule
Bombers under the letterhead of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) spread leaflets during serial bombings across the country yesterday with a demand for establishing Islamic rule, failingof
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Patrons still defend Jama'atul
BNP leaders of the North Bengal, who allegedly brought infamous Bangla Bhai in the limelight last year for their personal protection, refuse to admit that Bangla Bhai and Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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Series of blasts poses lasting security threat
Say analysts, blame govt inaction in punishing previous attackers
Simultaneous bomb blasts across the country yesterday pose a long-term threat to the country's security system, said security analysts, adding that the incidents once again proved the incompetence ofintelligence
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Blasts prove govt denials wrong
Yesterday's countrywide organised bomb attacks once again proved futile the government's persistent denial of the existence of Islamist militant in the country and claim that it would not allow unlawful
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Blasts rock dists
More than a hundred people were injured in yesterday's series of bomb blasts in major cities and 63 district towns across the country.
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Business another casualty of blasts
He flew in to Dhaka all the way from the USA a couple of days ago and was scheduled to visit a garment factory in Chittagong last evening. But instead he caught the next flight to the USA.
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Extensive search on roads after explosions
Just after a series of bomb explosion rocked the capital yesterday, the law enforcing agencies started extensive search of vehicles blocking city streets and roads at different points.
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AL, allies call hartal for Saturday
Blame govt for blasts
The main opposition Awami League (AL) and its allies have called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Saturday, blaming the government for yesterday's bomb blasts across the country.
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PM condemns attack
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has strongly condemned the bomb attacks in the country, including the capital city Dhaka.
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Weak bombs meant to send terror message
The bombs that exploded yesterday across the country were not powerful and the explosions were meant to send the message of the Jam'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh to establish Islamic rule in the countryrather
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Condemnation from foreign countries
New Delhi expressed concern over the scale and co-ordination of the bomb attacks in Bangladesh while China, the US Embassy and the British High Commission in Dhaka have strongly condemned the series of
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Babar changes statement on attack info
State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar has shifted from his previous statement of having prior intelligence reports about subversive activities and now says that they had no idea about such
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BNP asks not to politicise blasts
Jamaat blames it on AL
The LGRD minister and BNP secretary general yesterday asked all not to politicise yesterday's blasts as he said the incidents will be probed and the bombers identified in four days.
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6 picked up in city
Police yesterday picked up six persons, five of them hafez (one who has memorised the Holy Qur'an), from Ramna and airport areas in the capital on suspicion of their involvement in yesterday's countrywide
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Bomb blasts halt courts' proceedings
All the proceedings of the Dhaka courts were suspended yesterday after a series of bomb blasts rocked the courts' premises and other places in the city.
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FBCCI directors elect top leaders today
New schedule announced
The election board of the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) yesterday announced a new schedule under which its president and two vice-presidents will be elected today instead
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Jamal Uddin Abduction
Shahid again names MP's brother as mastermind
Prime suspect of the sensational Jamal Uddin abduction case, now on a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) remand, once again named local ruling BNP MP Sarwar Jamal Nizam's brother Maruf Nizam as the mastermind
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Ties with China firmly established
Says PM at Beijing function
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed her firm belief that the close relations fostered between Bangladesh and China over the past 30 years have now been placed on a solid foundation.
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