Dhaka - At least three people, including a ruling Awami League party leader, were injured Thursday in a bomb blast near the party's headquarters in Dhaka, police said. The bombing followed an October 21 blast in which a bomb was thrown at the car of ruling party lawmaker, Fazle Noor Tapas, a relative of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed. He narrowly escaped, but 13 other people were injured.
"We have started investigations into the latest blast," deputy police commissioner Atiqul Islam said after visiting the crime scene.
He said the blast took place between a crowded downtown shopping mall and the party's central office and left two Awami League leaders and a passer-by wounded.
Bangladeshi police have detained at least 20 people in connection with the previous attack, suspecting that the suspects might have been trying to jeopardize the trial into the killing of the country's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The government charged that the beneficiaries of Mujib's killing have been trying to destabilize the country's administration.
