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Arsonists set fire to four polling stations across three upazilas in Rajshahi two days before the national election. Two hand bombs were also recovered near one of the voting centres. Police suspect the arsonists sparked the fires by dousing petrol Read More …
Three suspected saboteurs were arrested by the Narayanganj railway police on Sunday while they were hurling crude bombs at the rail tracks in the Narayanganj rail station area. Narayanganj railway police sub-inspector Mokhlesur Rahman told New Age that the three Read More …
Three police officers sustained injuries after a crude bomb exploded while they were on duty near Tinmatha intersection of Gabtoli upazila in Bogura on Wednesday afternoon, the last day of the 36-hour blockade called by the BNP and its allies. Read More …
Police have arrested four people accused of detonating crude bombs across Dhaka, including the offices of the deputy commissioner and returning officer, and engaging in sabotage and arson. The suspects have been identified as Ashiqur Rahman Panna, former Swechchha Sebak Read More …
At least two on-duty traffic police sergeants were injured after a crude bomb exploded in Gulistan, just an hour after a bus was set ablaze in the same area. The incident took place near Paltan traffic police box at around Read More …
Several crude bombs were exploded at BNP vice-chairman Abdul Awal Mintu’s house at Daganbhuiyan upazila in Feni early Tuesday. The incident took place at about 1:30am. Miscreants also set fire to the private car of Mintu’s younger brother Akber Hossain, Read More …
A 13-year-old boy was injured while trying to play with a bomb, mistaking it for a ball, in Deganga of North 24-Parganas on Sunday afternoon. He mistook the contents of the packet for balls. He picked up one in his Read More …
A person was injured tonight in a crude bomb blast near Baitul Mukarram area of the capital’s Paltan. Paltan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Salauddin Mia said miscreants hurled two crude bombs in the area. One exploded and the other one Read More …
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested over 300 people from different areas, including Dhaka, in connection with the violence and sabotage activities during the BNP’s grand rally on October 28. RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Commander Khondoker Al Moyeen Read More …
Two crude bombs were denoted by unidentified individuals in the Panthapath area of Dhaka on Thursday. The incident took place in front Hotel Olio International around 2:40pm. According to witnesses, crude bombs were hurled from above — one fell on Read More …
Two crude bombs found near the main gate of Rajshahi Rail station on Sunday night have been defused. Security guards of the railway station spotted the bombs wrapped with red scotch tape around 9:30 pm and informed the police. On Read More …
Three crude bombs were recovered from the Nilkhet area of Dhaka on Thursday morning, on the last day of a three-day blockade enforced by the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and their allies. The bomb disposal unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Read More …
Five school kids in Duttapukur of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district were injured as a crude bomb they were playing with detonated on Friday afternoon, police said. According to the local police, the blast occurred while the kids were Read More …
At least six persons were injured, one critically, after a crude bomb was hurled at them in Khajuripokhari village within Bari Ramachandrapur police limits in Jajpur district on Sunday night. Sources said a clash broke out between two groups of Read More …
On Sunday (August 6), a large cache of explosives was recovered by the police near Radipur village in the Rampurhat subdivision in the Birbhum district of West Bengal. As per reports, the cops raided an abandoned house based on a Read More …
Intense firing was reported from Manipur on Sunday, a day after five persons lost their lives in three separate incidents while 15 abandoned houses were torched. According to reports reaching here, violence erupted in two adjoining villages on the border Read More …
A nine-year-old boy was injured in a crude bomb explosion in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday, police said. The boy, a class 4 student was injured in Basirhat block 2 when he mistook a crude bomb lying Read More …
Four explosions of crude bomb-like objects have been reported in Aminbazar, Savar, the gateway to Dhaka. The explosions occurred on the road in front of a filling station in Aminbazar on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at around 2pm on Saturday. Shortly Read More …
Five children aged between 7 and 11 years were injured when a crude bomb went off in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Monday, a police officer said. The incident took place inside a mango garden at Mathpara in Jangipur around Read More …
A crude bomb went off near a school building in the Sepahijala district of Tripura on Wednesday injuring a school-going child. The state police have started an investigation into the matter. According to reports, a 15-year-old student received injuries when Read More …