Staff Reporter :
Three crude bombs were exploded by unidentified persons near the Madhur Canteen on the Dhaka University (DU) campus on Sunday morning.
The crude bombs went off around 10:15am, said DU Proctor Prof M Golam Rabbani.
However, no one was injured in the incident. The DU proctor blamed those who wanted to destabilise the campus for the incident, saying that legal action will be taken against the culprits.
Md Saddam Hussein, General Secretary of DU unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), said that activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) who were deprived of posts in its new committee might have been behind the incident.
Senior officials of Dhaka Metropolitan Police visited the spot.
Earlier on Thursday, a live crude bomb was recovered from near the Madhur Canteen.
Earlier report adds: a crude bomb went off in front of BNP’s central office at Nayapaltan in the city on Sunday.
Officer-in-charge of Paltan Police Station Abu Bakkar Siddique said the incident took place around 12:15pm while police recovered three more unexploded crude bombs from the footpath in the area.
He said they were trying to identify those involved in the incident watching the footage of CCTV cameras.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir went to the BNP office around 1:10pm where party leaders were are interviewing its aspirants for councillor posts in the two city polls.
Talking to reporters, he said the government is carrying out such incidents to destroy the city election atmosphere. “They’ll now try to file cases against BNP leaders and activists with a political motive. We condemn the incident.”
Huge law enforcers took position in front of the BNP office and its adjoining areas following the incident. Earlier on Friday, miscreants blasted a crude bomb in front of the BNP office.
