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Shrine Bombing

SP show-caused, OC suspended for laxity

Our Correspondent, B'baria
Brahmanbaria Superintendent of Police (SP) ATM Tareque was show-caused and the Akhaura Police Station officer in-charge (OC) was suspended yesterday for negligence in duty and failure to safeguard the devotees at Kharampur shrine from the midnight bombing spree last Friday.
Sources said the Brahmanbaria Deputy Commissioner (DC) M Sayedur Rahman and the Akhaura Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mezbah Uddin Chawdhury too will face departmental actions for letting the carnage take place, as the Cabinet Division has already been instructed to do that.
Meanwhile, 24 hours into the serial bombing that saw one man killed and some 50 others including a policeman wounded, the police are yet to learn the motive for the atrocity or any clue to the identities of the attackers.
However, they suspect two of the injured men now in hospital might have been among the bomb carriers. They are Kamrul, 25, son of Hiron Mia of Comilla, and Dipu, 20, son of Muhammad Ali of Kotwali Thana, Dhaka. Police arrested the two yesterday.
Four magistrates, six police officials and 112 constables were supposed to be on duty at the shrine of Hazrat Shah Sayed Ahmed Gesu Daras, popularly known as Kolla Shahid, to ensure security of the more than 100,000 devotees gathered there to celebrate the annual weeklong Urs.
But, on Friday midnight, the third day of the Urs, 10 near-simultaneous bomb explosions froze the devotees in terror, sparking of waves of panic throughout the surrounding areas at Kharampur, six km off Akhaura.
Mosaheb Ali, 40, who was killed in the blasts, came from Baradi village in Narayanganj.
Though there was a report that a woman named Hasna Begum was also killed in the attack but the police denied it. Her body was not found on the spot too.
Witnesses said the first bomb wen off at 11:50pm near the donation box at the main entrance to the shrine.
The rest of the explosions took place one after another within the next five minutes. Five of them blasted on the shrine premises, two at the main gate and two in front of the nearby Akhaura Railway School.
Police also recovered another bomb, live, from the spot.
Meanwhile, the DC yesterday formed a 3-member probe body into the bomb attack headed by additional district magistrate. The committee has to submit its report within a week.
Of the injured, 26 were admitted to Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital, Akhaura Upazila Health Complex and various local clinics, while another five with critical wounds were sent to Dhaka hospitals for better treatment.
The seriously hurt people include Litton, 40, of Brahmanbaria; Abdul Barik, 60, of Dhaka; Asadullah, 30, of Manuhardi; Sahed Mia, 50, of Brahmanbaria; Saheda Bhanu, 60, of Sarail; Monir Mia, 60, of Habiganj; Akbar Hussain, 70, of Dhaka; Sukkur Bibi, 70, of Sylhet; Bhanu Chandra Das, 30, of Mirpur, Dhaka; police constable Motahar Hussain, 35; and Rafique, 35, of Narshingdi.