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“Two miscreants on a motorcycle arrived and hurled the crude bomb in front of the road of the Grameen Bank at around 3.45 a.m.,” a police official mentioned.
“Nobody has been arrested but, however by now we now have launched a marketing campaign to trace down the miscreants,” the officer-in-charge of Mirpur police station instructed reporters.
The assault was one of many many cases of sporadic violence which have hit Dhaka amid brewing tensions in Bangladesh’s political panorama.
Early on Monday (November 10, 2025), unidentified males additionally exploded improvised bombs in entrance of a enterprise outlet of considered one of Mr. Yunus’ advisers and set two buses ablaze within the capital.
Police mentioned no casualty was reported within the assaults in entrance of Grameen Bank, and the Prabartana — a enterprise owned by fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter.
Mr. Yunus, who’s at the moment the Chief Adviser of the interim authorities, based the Grameen Bank in 1983 and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in poverty alleviation and the empowerment of poor ladies via it.
According to police, the explosions in Prabartana on the Mohammadpur space occurred round 7:10 a.m., when two motorcycle-borne miscreants “hurled the crude bombs in front of the establishment, both of which exploded with loud bangs.”
One of the crude bombs additionally landed contained in the premises of the outlet.
Meanwhile, police mentioned “unidentified miscreants” additionally exploded crude bombs at two locations within the metropolis’s posh Dhanmondi space.
Motorcycle riders detonated two bombs close to Ibn Sina Hospital, mentioned to be run by Jamaat-e-Islami, and one other two in entrance of a serious crossing.
Separately, a 50-year-old man, “listed gangster”, was shot down in entrance of a hospital within the previous a part of Dhaka hours later.
Police mentioned they have been in search of clues to establish his assailants.
He had narrowly escaped an assault in 2023, three months earlier than which he was launched on bail after spending 26 years in jail, The Daily Star newspaper reported.
The incidents got here as police escalated their vigil, staging safety drills throughout the town forward of November 13, when Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) is about to repair the date for handing its verdict in opposition to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina after trial in absentia.
The ICT-BD prosecution crew demanded Hasina’s capital punishment, significantly for her makes an attempt to ruthlessly tame final yr’s violent student-led road protest dubbed the July Uprising, which toppled her Awami League regime.
The Bangladesh capital has been witnessing frequent flash marches for the previous a number of months when Hasina’s now disbanded Awami League activists all of a sudden seem on the streets, stage processions after which disperse.
Police mentioned they arrested over 3,000 activists of the “banned occasion” till final month, and the determine elevated as raids have been carried out daily to arrest extra.
Bangladesh military troops have been deployed for the previous 15 months in assist of civil energy, and final week, half of their round 60,000 personnel on policing duties have been introduced again to barracks for relaxation and coaching.
But the scenario appeared precarious as a seven-day deadline set by the interim authorities for political events to succeed in a consensus on the referendum on 84 reform proposals, a few of which contradict the present structure and the implementation of the July Charter, expires on Monday (November 10, 2025).
Awami League remained absent from the political scene because the interim authorities disbanded the occasion till its leaders have been “served justice,” whereas ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged because the frontrunner, with its as soon as ally Jamaat being its most important rival.
But BNP binned the federal government proposal for settling its variations with Jamaat via dialogue, saying it was a “government-created disaster” forward of the deliberate nationwide elections in February.
