Incident report:

Seven killed, 15 injured in Bangladesh bomb attack
DHAKA: At least seven people were killed and 15 others injured when a bomb
was thrown during a fair attended by 25,000 followers of a Muslim saint in
Bangladesh, a report said on Saturday.

The attack happened in the remote Dariapur village in the Tangail
district, 72 kilometres northwest of Dhaka.

“Some 25,000 people had converged for the annual Urs when a bomb was
hurled on Friday night as people crowded around the saint’s grave,”
Belayet Hossain, police chief of Tangail, told newsmen by telephone.

“Six people died and seven others were injured in the attack, but the
death toll might go up.”

The official BSS news agency later said one more person had died in
hospital of his injuries and that 15 people were injured.

“Preliminary investigations suggest it is an internal feud, among the
people who manage the saint’s grave, over money collected for the Urs,”
Hossain said.

Nine people have been arrested in connection with the blast, he said,
adding army bomb experts had rushed to the area to determine what kind of
explosives were used.

Security in the area has been beefed up. The fair is the largest in the
district and draws people from across Bangladesh, media Last month 18
people were killed and 100 injured when bombs ripped apart four cinemas in
the nearby Mymensingh district. —AFP

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