At least seven people were killed and more than 50 wounded in Bangladesh this morning when two bombs exploded during the morning rush hour on a crowded street in a northern town.
The bombs went off within the space of a few minutes in Netrokona, 360 kilometres from the capital Dhaka.
Police said the wounded included three policemen. Many of the victims were people on their way to work at offices, colleges and markets, witnesses said.
No one claimed responsibility for the explosions, but police blamed Islamist suicide bombers fighting for the introduction of sharia law in the mainly Muslim democracy.
Today's deaths took the number of people killed by suspected suicide bombers to 25 in three weeks; those killed have included judges, lawyers and policemen.
Bangladesh has been hit by a wave of bomb attacks since August by militants of banned groups, including the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, which seeks to turn mainly Muslim Bangladesh into a sharia-based Islamic state.
