Incident report:Blasts hit Bangladeshi Festival

Near simultaneous blasts ripped through a crowded movie house and a circus
show in southwestern Bangladesh on Saturday.

Local officials said that there was as yet no accurate count of how many
people had been killed or wounded. However, the Associated Press cited a
local police official as saying that at least ten people had been killed
and some 200 wounded.

Many children may be among the victims
The attacks occurred at roughly 20:00 in the evening in the small town of
Satkhira, some 176 kilometers southwest of the capital, Dhaka. The streets
were crowded with thousands of people -- many of them children --
celebrating the annual Gurpukur Fair.

At least two bombs detonated inside the Roxie Cinema Hall, which was
packed to capacity for the evening show. The blast set fire to the theater
and destroyed the tin roof of the cinema hall, which collapsed on top of
about 100 people.

Several minutes later, another two bombs went off among the crowd watching
a circus show at the local stadium. The bombs reportedly consisted of
home-made explosives surrounded with shrapnel intended to cause serious
injuries.

Local hospitals struggled to cope with the injured, many of them with
severed limbs. Anxious relatives crowded hospitals and milled around the
scene of the blasts, searching for missing loved ones. Twelve critically
injured patients were transferred to a military hospital in the nearby
town of Jessore as their conditions deteriorated.

Investigation Report

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