Off the wire
Chinese legislators urge deepened reform on public hospitals  • Feature: Refugees enjoy Christmas in Finnish reception centers  • "Mojin-The Lost Legend" dominates China's box office  • Chinese lawmakers demand better care for elderly  • 2nd LD Writethru: Visiting Indian PM starts meeting with Pakistani counterpart  • Senior officials in Guangdong punished  • China redesignates another Tibetan county as city  • 1st LD: China to deepen supply-side structural reforms in agriculture  • 1st LD-Writethru: China, Nepal agree on wider cooperation  • Syrian rebels to start evacuation from Damascus' southern districts  
You are here:   Home

Attack on Bangladesh's Ahmadiyya mosque leaves 1 dead

Xinhua, December 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

An attack on worshipers at a mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in a western Bangladeshi district has killed at least one people and wounded three more.

The Friday attack took place at Chokpara mosque of Ahmadiyya community, in Rajshahi district, some 256 km west of the capital city.

Motiar Rahman, officer-in-charge of Rajshahi's Baghmara Police station, told journalists that the suspect behind the explosion was dead in the attack, adding that authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.

"We're suspecting that the deceased is the attacker himself," Rahman said.

The injured were rushed to a local health complex immediately, he said.

Muslim-majority Bangladesh has suffered a rising tide of Islamist violence over the recent months. Endit