{"id":1237,"date":"2005-12-08T21:58:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T03:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2005-12-08T21:59:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T03:59:38","slug":"seven-killed-50-hurt-in-bangladesh-bomb-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Seven Killed, 50 Hurt in Bangladesh Bomb Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in case you hadn’t heard, and that seems very likely, there was a bloody suicide bombing today in Bangladesh<\/a>. It should not be a surprise that apparently radical Islamists are to blame.<\/p>\n

At least seven people were killed and more than 50 wounded in Bangladesh on Thursday in a suicide bomb attack during the morning rush hour on a crowded street in a district town, police said.<\/p>\n

Two bombs went off within the space of a few minutes in Netrokona, 360 km (220 miles) north of the capital Dhaka.<\/p>\n

Police said the wounded included three policemen. Many of the victims were people on their way to work at offices, colleges and markets, witnesses said.<\/p>\n

No one claimed responsibility for the blasts, but police blamed Islamist suicide bombers fighting for the introduction of sharia law in the mainly Muslim democracy.<\/p>\n

Police said they found a suicide bomber among the wounded, with an unexploded bomb strapped to his body. He was taken to hospital unconscious, police added.<\/p>\n

Another suicide bomber was believed to be among the dead.<\/p>\n

“Two of the dead, including a woman, have been identified, but identities of the rest are yet to be ascertained,” one police officer said.<\/p>\n

“We have reasons to believe that one among the dead was a suicide bomber, who arrived on the spot on a bicycle just moments before the blast,” he added.<\/p>\n

The bombs exploded near the local office of a cultural organization, Udichi, which police believe was the target. At least one member of the group was among the dead, said a police officer.<\/p>\n

Ten people were killed and over 50 were injured when a bomb exploded at an open-air concert of Udichi in western Jessore town in March 1999.<\/p>\n

Many Islamic groups dislike Udichi, which organizes open-air shows of drama, music and poetry recitals. It pursues a strong secular philosophy.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s deaths took the number of people killed by suspected suicide bombers to 25 in three weeks, including judges, lawyers and policemen.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh has been hit by a wave of bomb attacks since August by militants of banned groups, including the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, which seeks to turn mainly Muslim Bangladesh into a sharia-based Islamic state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Secular, not anti-Islamic but secular, entertainment is a worthy target that must be destroyed in the eyes of the Islamists. The radicals of the religion comprise a global virus, seemingly unable to live peacably in any place on the globe where they find themselves in sizable numbers but unable to behead and stone at will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in case you hadn’t heard, and that seems very likely, there was a bloody suicide bombing today in Bangladesh. It should not be a surprise that apparently radical Islamists are to blame. At least seven people were killed and more than 50 wounded in Bangladesh on Thursday in a suicide bomb attack during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}