Egypt temporarily closes embassy in Dhaka, 1 Jamaat man held
August 21, 2013  21:43
A student activist of Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami was arrested today on charge of threatening to blow up the Egyptian embassy here, which was earlier shut down for 11 days over "security reasons". 

Shawkat Afsar of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of the Jamaat, was arrested on a tip-off, Deputy Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman said.
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