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Bomb hits Bangladesh MP's car, several hurt
Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:06pm EDT
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DHAKA (Reuters) - About a dozen people were injured on Wednesday when unidentified attackers threw a bomb at the car of a Bangladesh politician related to the country's prime minister, police and witnesses said.
They said Fazle Noor Tapas, a member of parliament from the Awami League party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, escaped unhurt in the evening attack in central Dhaka. The bomb hit the car as Tapas was getting into it.
"About 12 people were injured," one witness told Reuters by telephone from the scene of the attack, outside the member of parliament's office in the Motijheel district.
Police said eight people were taken to hospital.
Tapas's father, Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni, died during a 1975 army rebellion in which Hasina's father and the country's founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was also killed along with most members of his family.
Tapas, a barrister, is now taking part in legal proceedings against the 1975 killers who have appealed against previous court sentences to hang them.
Home Minister Sahhara Katun visited the blast site, littered with broken glasses and surrounded by security officers, along with other ministers and high officials.
"This may be part of a conspiracy to shatter democracy and destabilize the country," said Qamrul Islam, state minister for law.
Police said they were trying to determine the type of the bomb and the motive behind the attack.
Tapas later told a private television channel that he believed that perpetrators of the 1975 carnage were now trying to kill other patriotic leaders. He did not elaborate.
Thousands of Awami activists joined a street protest in the capital soon after Tapas left the spot, demanding the arrest of the attackers and action to find out who was behind them, witnesses said. They called for more protests on Thursday.
Bangladesh has suffered a spate of bomb attacks since 2004 when several grenades exploded at a rally that Hasina, then the opposition leader, was addressing in Dhaka.
Twenty-three leaders and workers of the Awami League died in the blasts, but Hasina survived with a partial loss of hearing.
The home ministry says there are hundreds of Islamist militants operating in Bangladesh are trying to turn the country into a Sharia-based Islamic state.
They exploded at least 500 small bombs in simultaneous attacks across Bangladesh in August 2005, but their top six commanders were captured and hanged in early 2007. Continued...
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