The
Daily Star reports that Bangladesh
Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Vice
Chairman Tarique Rahman assured
Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami (HuJI)
chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his
associates that he would arrange
a safe passage out of the scene
once they carried out the grenade
attack on an Awami League (AL) rally
in 2004, Abu Hena Md Yusuf, inspector
of Criminal Investigation Department
(CID), said on May 27. Twenty-four
AL leaders and workers were killed
and 300 others were injured in the
grenade attack on the AL rally at
Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital
on August 21, 2004. The attack was
aimed at assassinating AL President
Sheikh Hasina, then leader of the
opposition. Hasina narrowly escaped
death. Two cases one under the
explosive substances act and the
other for murder were filed after
the incident. |
