Unique content • Global reach • In print and online
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has detected improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and anti-personnel mines along the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban and seized a significant quantity of flammable chemical substances in separate operations. According to a BGB press release, a patrol team Read More …
A 25-year-old man suffered burn injuries in an explosion allegedly while making crude bombs at Nilfa Bazar in Tungipara upazila of Gopalganj district on Monday. The injured was identified as Matiur Rahman of the area. Sarwar Hossain, Additional Superintendent of Read More …
Six crude bombs (cocktails) have been recovered from beside the main entrance used by judges at the Supreme Court in the capital, Dhaka. The bombs were recovered today, Sunday, around 1:30 pm. Police said six unexploded black-coloured crude bombs were Read More …
Joint forces in a drive arrested three people and recovered 95 crude bombs from Poragachha Bepari Kandi village of Naria upazila in Shariatpur district on Monday. The arrestees were identified as Nasir Uddin Bachhu Peda, 55, son of Goni Peda, Read More …
A crude bomb went off outside the rented house of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Advocate Yakub Ali Chowdhury, who is contesting the election from Khagrachhari. According to Jamaat-e-Islami, the explosion occurred around 10:00pm on Tuesday in the Shalbagan area of Khagrachhari Read More …
A man has been killed in a crude bomb explosion in Zajira Upazila of Shariatpur. Police believe the man died while making a crude bomb when it exploded early Thursday in the Mulai Beparikandi area of Bilaspur Union. The victim Read More …
Three people have been arrested and a cache of bomb-making materials seized following an explosion at Ummal Kura International Madrasa in Hasnabad area of South Keraniganj, Dhaka, that injured four people, including women and children on Friday, authorities said. Police Read More …
A crude bomb was exploded near Malibagh intersection in the capital Dhaka on Thursday, a day after a youth was killed in a crude bomb explosion at Moghbazar on Wednesday. A case has been filed in connection with the murder Read More …
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have recovered seven petrol bombs, four crude bombs, and various bomb-making materials from a bush inside a park in the capital’s Mohammadpur area. The explosives were found abandoned during a special operation conducted Read More …
MRT Police recovered two unexploded crude bombs from the metro rail track between Kazipara and Shewrapara on Friday morning. The crude bombs were wrapped with scotch tape inside Betel nut tins. The DMP Bomb Disposal Unit later neutralized and removed Read More …
Dhaka police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with homemade bomb attacks that targeted a Catholic cathedral and a Church-run school in Bangladesh’s capital this month. Police investigators identified the suspect as a member of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the Read More …
A retired schoolteacher was killed and two others injured in a bomb and gun attack at a BNP office near the IT Gate of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday night. The deceased is Imdadul Islam, while the Read More …
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been injured after a mine exploded while he was part of a patrol in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border area in Bandarban. The incident occurred in Naikhongchhari’s Tambru area around 12:30pm on Sunday, according Read More …
In the first six months of this year, at least 18 people — 17 Bangladeshis and one Rohingya — were wounded in landmine explosions on the Myanmar side of the border. Two Rohingyas were killed and six others wounded last Read More …
A crude bomb exploded on the road in front of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Dhaka this morning (16 June). Meanwhile, seven more unexploded crude bombs were recovered from the Dhaka University campus this morning, raising concerns over security Read More …
An explosion happened on Tuesday in Aralia village, Baluakandi union, Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj while a bomb squad was trying to deactivate a mortar shell. The blast damaged several nearby houses. Gazaria Police Station’s Investigation Officer, Shahidul Islam, said the Read More …
Two people have suffered injuries after more than 100 crude bombs were detonated during a clash between the two rival groups in Shariatpur’s Zajira Upazila in a bid to assert dominance. Zajira police chief Dulal Akand said the incident occurred Read More …
Three individuals were injured in separate landmine explosions at the Naikhongchhari border in Bandarban on Friday morning. This incident, which took place approximately 400 metres inside Myanmar from the zero line, injured Md Rasel, 25, son of former union parishad Read More …
A total of 123 crude bomb-like objects in 10 bags were found in roadside bushes in Damudya upazila of Shariatpur yesterday morning. Hafizur Rahman Milon, officer-in-charge of Damudya Police Station, said locals first noticed the bags in the bushes in Read More …
Three people have suffered injuries after an abandoned improvised explosive detonated near the Geneva Camp in Dhaka. The incident occurred around 10:45am on Wednesday, said Ali Iftekhar Hasan, chief of the capital’s Mohammadpur Police Station. Iftekhar said the explosion took Read More …