The explosions were reported at Dhaka University, Nilkhet, the CID headquarters in Malibagh, Pallabi Police Station and in front of Sony Hall in Mirpur-1, with an SRB member injured in the Pallabi blast.
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A series of crude bomb explosions were reported at multiple locations across Dhaka this evening (8 November), including Dhaka University, Nilkhet, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters and Pallabi Police Station, while another blast targeted a private car in Mirpur-1, leaving a Special Response Battalion (SRB) member injured.
The first explosions occurred between 6:15pm and 6:45pm, when eight to nine crude bombs went off at five locations around Dhaka University and the adjoining Nilkhet area.
The blasts were reported at the university’s Teacher-Student Centre (TSC), the gate of the Senate Building, in front of Bangladesh-Kuwait Maitree Hall and Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall, and in the Nilkhet area.
Police detained three people in connection with those incidents.
Later, around 7:30pm, crude bombs were detonated outside the CID headquarters in Malibagh and inside Pallabi Police Station in Mirpur.
In Malibagh, a crude bomb thrown from the Malibagh flyover landed on a Special Branch (SB) vehicle inside the CID office premises and exploded.
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No one was injured, said Paltan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Ariful Alam Arif.
“Miscreants threw a crude bomb from the Malibagh flyover. It landed on a Special Branch (SB) vehicle inside the CID office premises and exploded. Fortunately, no one was injured,” he told The Business Standard.
“We are investigating who was behind the incident,” he added.
In a separate incident, two unidentified people on a motorcycle threw a crude bomb into the premises of Pallabi Police Station from an overpass before fleeing, said the station’s Officer-in-Charge Jalal Uddin.
The explosion injured an SRB member, identified as Yiaar Uddin, who is posted at SRB-4.
Additional Superintendent of Police KN Roy Niyoti, company commander of RAB-4, told TBS that a fragment from the exploded bomb struck the member’s hand, causing a minor abrasion. The injury was not serious, he added.
Another crude bomb exploded on the bonnet of a private car in front of Sony Hall in Mirpur-1 around 8:35pm.
Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Model Police Station, told TBS that a crude bomb had been thrown at a private car in front of Sony Hall and that he was heading to the scene.
He said further details would be available later.
According to law enforcement sources, unidentified people on a motorcycle hurled the crude bomb at the car. Authorities were working to identify those involved.
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