Satkhira bombings

2002 Satkhira bombing was a double bomb attack on 28 September 2002 of Roxy cinema hall and a circus tent in Satkhira District, Bangladesh that killed 3 people and injured 100 others.[1][2][3]

2002 Satkhira bombing
LocationSatkhira, Bangladesh
Date28 September 2002 (UTC+06:00)
Targetgeneral public
Attack type
Triple murder; bomb attack; terrorism
WeaponsTime bombs
Deaths3
Injured100
PerpetratorsJamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh

Attacks

Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, a Bangladeshi Islamist terrorist organization, carried out attacks on the early 2000s in public places in Bangladesh.[4][5]

A bomb was placed in a Roxy cinema hall and another inside a circus tent in Satkhira District on 28 September 2002. Three people died in the explosion and 100 others were injured.[4][5] The first bomb went off in the cinema hall and minutes later the bomb in the circus went off.[6] Time bombs were used in the attacks.[7] Similar attacks took place in Mymensingh in the Mymensingh cinema bombings.[8]

References

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  6. Kumaraswamy, P. R.; Copland, Ian (2013). South Asia: The Spectre of Terrorism. Taylor & Francis. pp. 184–. ISBN 978-1-317-96772-9.
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  8. "Bombs hit cinemas in Bangladesh". BBC News. Retrieved 26 January 2017.

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