Blast in Bangladesh kills one, wounds six: officials

  07 July 2016    Read: 1568
Blast in Bangladesh kills one, wounds six: officials
A Bangladeshi policeman was killed and six people were wounded on Thursday in a blast in a town hosting the country`s biggest celebrations for the end of the Ramadan fasting month, officials said.
The cause of the blast in Kishoregonj town, about 140 km (90 miles) northwest of Dhaka, was not immediately known but it rattled nerves less than a week after Islamist militants killed 20 people in an attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka, claimed by Islamic State militants.

"There is panic here," said an officer at the police control room in Kishoregonj town.

Administrative district chief Mohammad Azimuddin Sheikh said initial suspicion was that the explosion near a school was caused by a militant bomb.

One suspected attacker was also killed, said another Kishoregonj police officer, Anwar Hossain Khan.

Ramadan ended this week with the Eid al-Fitr festival across the Muslim world.

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