Overview
- Officers say seven crude or petrol bombs were set off across Dhaka on Nov. 10, including outside Grameen Bank’s headquarters in Mirpur around 3:45 a.m.
- Dhaka Metropolitan Police report arresting a 28-year-old suspect identified as a member of the banned Awami League’s student wing, with interrogation under way.
- Targets included a business linked to adviser Farida Akhter in Mohammadpur, two buses that were set ablaze, and locations near Ibn Sina Hospital and a major crossing.
- Police also link the case to Nov. 7 petrol-bomb attacks at St Mary’s Cathedral and a Catholic school, and they have launched a citywide manhunt and stepped up patrols.
- A separate shooting hours later left a 50-year-old listed gangster dead in Old Dhaka, with investigators seeking the assailants as the ICT-BD’s Nov. 13 proceeding and election campaigning draw closer.