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.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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