Several small bombs have exploded at three railway stations in Bangladesh slightly injuring one person.
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\nThe bombs\u00a0detonated at stations in Dhaka, the capital,\u00a0in Sylhet, the country’s northern city and in Chittagong, the southeastern port, at about 7.30am local time (0130 GMT) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Officials found\u00a0metal plates, signed by “Zadid [new] al-Qaeda,” at two of the\u00a0stations.
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\n“The bombs were kept in cotton sacks, along with the metal sheets. They exploded before anyone detected them,” Abu Zafar Alam, a police inspector at Kamalapur, Bangladesh’s\u00a0largest railway terminal, said.<\/p>\n
The only person injuried was a rickshaw-puller who tried to open one of the sacks, causing it to explode.
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\nMotive unclear
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\nThe metal plates referred to an attack on the minority Ahmadiyas – a Muslim sect frequently\u00a0targeted by radical groups within the majority Sunni Muslim community.
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\nAhmadiyas differ from mainstream Islam by not believing that Mohammad was the last prophet.
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\nThe messages also issued threats against Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Bangladesh.
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\n“If Hazrat [Prophet] Mohammad is not declared the superman of the world by May 10, all non-governmental organisations will be blown up,” the slogans on the metal sheets read in the Bengali language.
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\nPolice did\u00a0not immediately confirm who were behind\u00a0the blasts and no arrests have been made.
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\n“We are investigating whether it is a new group [responsible for the bomb attacks],” said Nur Mohammed, national police chief.<\/p>\n
Police said security across the country had been tightened after the bomb blasts.
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\nIn August 2005, three people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in towns and cities across Bangladesh organised by Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a banned group seeking the imposition of strict Islamic law.
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\nFurther bomb attacks by Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, another banned group, were staged through the rest of 2005, killing at least 30 people.
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\nSix leaders from the two organisations were hanged in March after being convicted of the murder of two judges who died in the bomb attacks.
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\nA state of emergency in Bangladesh has been in effect since January, when political violence forced the army-backed interim government to suspend a national election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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