India sends 4 NSG bomb experts to probe both Dhaka terror attacks
July 07, 2016  12:55
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Just in: India sends a four-member NSG team to Dhaka to probe both the blasts. All the four NSG members are bomb experts.

Meanwhile, two policemen have been killed with over nine officers wounded, says Reuters.  The toll remains at four. The other two dead are a terrorist and a civilian.

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has condemnned the attack this morning at Kishorganj near Dhaka and said that this is not Islam. She said she was Worried that 400 young Bangladeshi men have been missing from their homes and could have been radicalised. "Islam says you can't kill innocent people. Terrorism is against humanity. How can terrorists kill people during namaz," she said in Dhaka's second attack in a week.

To bring you up to speed, four people, including a policeman, have been killed and 11 injured after bombs went off near Bangladesh's biggest Eid gathering in the north of the country this morning.

Bangladesh media reports that a bigger police contingent has been dispatched to Kishoreganj, 140 km from Dhaka where the attackers are believed to be holed up in a school.

Locals say 6-7 youths led the attack on Eid the congregation of 30,000 people. A cop was attacked with knife and bombs exploded injuring seven.

According to reports, a group of six to seven terrorists led the attack on policemen at around 9:45 am when the law enforcers were frisking people into the Eidgah ground.

Bangladeshi media reports said that the police has been trading gunfire with the attackers who are now reportedly holed up inside a school.


Image: The five terrorists who killed 20 at the Holey Artisan cafe in Dhaka last week.
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