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Two judges bombed to death in Bangladesh by
Nazrul Islam

    Dhaka: Two district judges were killed and four others injured in a bomb attack in Bangladesh's southern Jhalakathi district on Monday, a day after the government hosted the seven-nation SAARC summit amidst red-security alert across the country. The district police said the attack came in the morning hours when the two district court judges, Sohel Ahmed, 35, and Jagannath Parey, 38, boarded on a microbus from their official quarters at Chandkathi. The attack killed them on the spot leaving two more court employees wounded. Bangladesh's Law Minister Moudud Ahnmed and the State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar flew to the spot and blamed Islamic militants for the attack. They instructed the police to find out the perpetrators of the attacks. "Those who have committed this gruesome murder are the enemies of the people of Bangladesh. It must be looked into. Those who made the attack want to say that the legal system is not proper," Moudud said. Lutfuzzaman Babar held the Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh, a banned Islamic outfit, responsible for the act. The courts in Bangladesh faced series of militant attacks in the last couple of months. On August 17, the militants perpetrated as many as 500 small bomb attacks across the country, mostly on the courts, that killed three people and injured many. In September, two people were killed in near-simultaneous bombing on three courts in Chittagong, Chandpur and Laxmipur. The police arrested more than 300 people, for the attacks, most of them belonging to militant Islamic organisation Jamaatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh. Police also arrested one suspect, Mamun, who received injury in the latest attack. The detainee is also a member of the JMB. Meanwhile, the lawyers across the country demonstrated in protest against the gruesome killing of two judges.

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