ISIS BEHIND BANGLADESH MOSQUE BOMBING
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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Saturday 12/26/2015, claimed responsibility for a suicide attack at a Mosque of the minority Ahmadi Muslims in Bangladesh, in which the suspected bomber died and at least three others were injured.
U.S.-based monitoring organisation SITE reported that the ISIS group, which has claimed responsibility for a number of recent attacks in Bangladesh, said it had targeted worshippers during Friday prayers.
The bomber detonated an explosive belt at a mosque of the “polytheist Qadiani sect,” a derogatory term for Ahmadi Muslims, the monitoring organisation quoted ISIS as saying.
According to the statement “dozens” of worshippers were injured or killed at the Mosque in the northwestern town of Bagmara, but police said, on Friday 12/25/2015, only three had been injured.
The bomb blast at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Mosque in Bagmara, some 250 kilometers from the capital Dhaka, occurred as nearly 100 people were gathered for Friday prayers, police said.
Police blame the homegrown militant group Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for the recent violence while Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government accuses the main opposition party and its Islamist ally of trying to trigger anarchy. The parties deny the claims.
Analysts say Islamist extremists pose a growing danger in conservative Bangladesh and that a long-running political crisis has radicalized opponents of the government.
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