Teenage boy killed in blast

An 18-year-old boy was killed as a crude bomb abandoned in a shopping bag went off at Daudpur village under Nawabganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

The dead, Md Monirul Islam, was from Akhira village in the upazila. He ran a small grocery shop on Daudpur-Bhaduria road, some 80 kilometres away from the district town.

Quoting witnesses, Abdul Halim Sarker, chairman of Daudpur Union Parishad, said two bikers left a shopping bag near the CCD office at Daudpur village around 5:00pm when Monirul was returning to his shop from home.

As the boy touched the bag out of curiosity, the bomb blasted, killing him on the spot.

Police recovered the body around 6:30pm and took it to Nawabganj Police Station.

The body will be sent today to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital for an autopsy, said Md Amirul Islam, officer-in-charge of the police station.