Dhaka: Terrorist group ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack at a packed mosque of minority Ahmadi community during Friday prayers in northwestern Bangladesh, in which 10 people were wounded.
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Police said the bomb suddenly went off when the youth tried to free it from his waist in a bid to detonate it while devotees were offering their Juma’ prayers in the mosque of the Ahmadiyya community, leaving him dead on the spot.
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“The explosion killed the suicide bomber and injured 10 others”, a police officer said.
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Bangladesh has some 100,000 Ahmadiyas among its 160 million people in a Sunni-majority nation.
Choudhury said the last suicide bombing at an Ahmadi mosque was in 1999, in the southwestern Khulna district.
Police launched an investigation into the latest attacks, but failed to make any headway into the probe as the suspected bomber could not be identified yet. One of the two unknown people died.
Some of the assaults have been claimed by Islamic State, which has additionally stated it’s behind the killings of a Japanese citizen, an Italian assist employee and a policeman.
Members of other minority groups, including Sufis – who adhere to a mystical form of Islam deemed by some militant hardliners as heretical – have also been attacked and killed, and two Christian priests have survived attacks claimed by militants.
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Police blame the JMB for the recent violence while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government accuses the main opposition party and its militant ally of trying to trigger anarchy.
