Bangladesh awaiting Burdwan blast report from India

Bangladesh has yet to receive any report from the Indian authorities on a recent bomb blast in West Bengal’s Burdwan district.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 14 Oct 2014, 06:37 PM
Updated : 14 Oct 2014, 06:37 PM

Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali said on Tuesday he was told that Dhaka would get information from New Delhi.

The minister briefed the media ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Italy to attend Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).

Earlier, the government said that they had sought information from Delhi on the bomb blast in which West Bengal police found link of Bangladesh’s banned militant outfit JMB.

India’s official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said they had requested their agencies to tabulate and collate information so that “they can share appropriately with friends in Bangladesh”.

The Oct 2 explosion at a Burdwan house killed two suspected militants and left another injured.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, which is currently conducting the investigation along with the West Bengal CID, has unearthed a major JMB plot to carry out attacks in Bangladesh.

The NIA’s initial investigation has revealed that the terror group has been planning the attacks to avenge the crackdown on radical groups in Bangladesh by the Sheikh Hasina government, an Indian government official privy to the investigation told bdnews24.com.