DHAKA: Five people received injuries in a "bomb explosion" at Mirpur-2 in the capital city Dhaka on Monday night, said police. "We cannot say immediately what kind of bomb or device exploded," said officer in charge of Shah Ali Police Station Zakir Hossain Mollah told media. The explosion took place at around 9:30pm after a bag "containing bombs" fell from a table at a watermelon stall at Eidgah Field, he said. The injured, named as Saju (25), Rana (22), Ali Akbar (60), Nasir (32) and Alam (30), were admitted to local medical centres and Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Rickshaw puller Saju said the blast took place at the corner of Eidgah Field while he was walking along Zoo Road. "I don't know what happened after that," he said. Stall keeper Rana echoed the same. Mollah said there was a police check post on one side of the road and a RAB car parked on the other side from the stall. However none of them sustained injuries in the incident, he added. Senior police officials visited the scene.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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