JMB attacks kill 15 since Aug 17
Staff Correspondent
Fifteen people including judges, lawyers and police have been killed since banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) started terror attacks on August 17 in the name of establishing Islamic rule in the country.In the latest wave of strikes by JMB suicide bombers on Gazipur Bar Association building and a police check-post at Chittagong court building yesterday, seven people including two lawyers and a police constable were killed and 78 others injured. Two suicide bombers also blew themselves up. Another attack by JMB on November 14 killed two senior assistant judges and wounded three people in Jhalakathi. The banned outfit carried out attacks on the courtrooms in Chandpur, Laxmipur and Chittagong districts, killing four people and injuring 38 including a judge on October 3. On October 18, militants hurled a bomb at the vehicle of judge Biplop Goswami in Sylhet, leaving him injured. The militants' August 17 simultaneous serial blasts at 459 spots in 63 districts across the country killed two people and injured many others.
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