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Bomb spectre haunts Sylhet

Intelligence agents examine Islamist militant link, AL leader used the bombed car

Staff Corresponded, sylhet
Fear and shock gripped Sylhet yesterday, a day after a car bomb killed Awami League (AL) leader Mohammad Ibrahim and injured 30 others in the latest of 14 major explosions in seven years in the northeasternholycity.
The explosion, 47 hours after
twin cinema blasts that also killed a young man on Thursday, turned the city, rich with the memories of Islamic saints, into a virtual ghost town as police sifted through the wreckage for clues to the crime.
Intelligence agents were examining the probable link of Islamist outfits to the crime, as Sylhet Mayor Badaruddin Ahmed Kamran, apparently the prime target of the attackers, received repeated death threats from one of the groups.
Some of them were also examining the intra-party conflict in the main opposition party.
In a little headway into the probe, police yesterday found out the owner of a jeep damaged by the bomb.
Bangladeshi immigrant to the UK and AL leader SM Nunu Miah used the jeep as a privileged client of the First Security Bank Limited, private news agency UNB said of police finds. The bank manager called in by the police at midnight told investigators that Miah was allowed to use the vehicle, as he is a client of his bank.
The explosion comes in the wake of a blast at the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal on January 12 that killed five people and a second bomb attack on May 21 that killed three people and injured many others including British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury.
AL adherents who will enforce a daylong hartal in the northeastern district today brought out a procession yesterday to mourn Ibrahim, Sylhet city AL publicity secretary.
The driver of the jeep, who was arrested earlier, was set free. Another jeep blown up in the explosion is also owned by Miah, arrested near a hotel,
the scene of the blast.
Miah told newspersons: "I have come from London this morning and arrived in Sylhet on the first flight of Biman."
"I was once with the Jatiya Party but joined the Awami League in April. I was to attend a reception in Biswanath upazila."
The police tightened security of Badaruddin who escaped the car bomb unscathed.
The body of Ibrahim was sent to his home village in Hathazari in Chittagong after his namaz-e-janaza on the premises of Hazrat Shahjalal Shrine Mosque.
The city and district AL launched a two-day demonstration against the twin blasts in cinema halls, underlining security concerns in the city.
Paramilitary forces and the Armed Police Battalion have been patrolling the streets of the city since Saturday night.
The District Bar Association observed a daylong work abstention in all courts in Sylhet to protest the car blast that injured 30, including five members of the Bar.