Incident
report:
Attack Details:
 Nine
people including two lawyers and a police constable were
killed and 78 others injured yesterday in two suicide
bomb attacks by Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB),
on Chittagong and Gazipur court premises.
In the latest wave of terror strikes on the judiciary,
two JMB members blew themselves up -- one near a police
check-post at the entrance to the Chittagong court building
at 8:44am and the other at 9:45am in a crowd of lawyers
and their clients at the Gazipur bar association building.
The Gazipur suicide bomber died on the spot, while doctors
until late last night were trying hard to save the life
of Chittagong bomber, Abul Bashar.
The JMB has targeted the judiciary as a part of its professed
struggle to turn the state into an Islamic shariah-based
one. Two notes found with Bashar termed the attack a preliminary
warning to the forces working to ensure security of judges
and announced to continue the Jihad until 'an Islamic
welfare state is established'.
Investigation Report
Mastermind caught with bombs
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