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Bangladesh explosives most powerful yet
The latest attacks by suicide bombers in Bangladesh using the most powerful explosives ever in the country showed that militants are becoming more sophisticated, police said yesterday. Nine people were killed and 65 wounded in Tuesday?s blasts near court buildings, which police and lawyers said were part of a campaign by Islamic militants to terrorise the judiciary before it puts rebels detained for other bombings on trial. ?The bombs that exploded yesterday were the most powerful we have seen. We can?t immediately say what kind of explosives they used but they were highly destructive,? said a police officer.
?The terrorists have not only acquired advanced technology and training but also changed their operational tactics,? he said. One of the bombers entered the court complex in Gazipur, 30 km (20 miles) north of Dhaka, donning a black robe to disguise himself as a lawyer, and set off the bomb strapped to his body, police and a witness said. He died along with five other people.
Shortly beforehand, a bomb went off at a police checkpoint outside a court building in the southern port city of Chittagong, apparently detonated by another suicide bomber. Three people died in that attack and the suspected bomber, who was wounded, has been arrested. A police officer said the suspected bomber, who gave his name as Abul Bashar, had travelled to Chittagong from northern Tangail district.
?I have no remorse. I did what I was supposed to do and I did it as per the will of Allah,? he was quoted as saying. Police said Tuesday?s attacks were the second time suicide bombers had struck this month, but with greater force. Two judges were killed in an bomb attack carried out by a suspected suicide bomber in the coastal town of Jhalakathi on Nov. 14. The man was wounded in the attack and is in police custody, but no details have been released.
Bangladesh has been hit this year by a wave of bombings blamed on militants demanding Islamic law in the mainly Muslim democracy. Hundreds of people from two outlawed Muslim groups, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, have been arrested, but politicians and security experts said there was still a climate of fear in the country.
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