Incident
report:
Attack Details:
 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.
The 30-minute mayhem in the morning killed one in Chapainawabganj
and injured over 100. Another boy was killed in a blast
at Savar in the afternoon.
Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, the banned militant
group, claimed responsibility for the blasts through leaflets
that left the countrymen in shock.
Panic gripped the country at the extent of the network
of the terrorists who meticulously calculated the timing
of the bombings between 11:00am and 11:30am, targeting
government establishments, mainly the offices of the local
district administrations and courts.
In
the leaflets, in Bangla and Arabic, found with the bomb
devices, Jama'atul, which was banned on February 23 this
year, said: "It is time to implement Islamic law
in Bangladesh. There is no future with man-made law."
Police randomly arrested at least 45 people including
a Mujahideen leader in Satkhira for their suspected involvement
in the attacks. Yesterday's attacks were only one in a
series of blasts suspected to be carried out by Islamist
militants in the last six years, all of which remain unearthed
and their investigations halted midway.
Investigation Report
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