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Urgent: 5 including police injured in bomb explosion at Bangladesh's largest Eid congregation

Xinhua, July 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

At least five people including several policemen were injured in a bomb explosion on Thursday morning at the entrance of Sholakia in Kishoreganj district, some 117 km northeast of Dhaka, where the largest congregation of Eid prayer in Bangladesh is being held on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr that marks the end of the Muslims' holy fasting month of Ramadan. Enditem