Two passersby injured during deactivation of bombs found after the blast near Dhaka airport

Two passersby have been injured during deactivation of bombs found in a trolley bag which the person killed in a blast near Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport was carrying.

Police's bomb disposal unit defused the first bomb safely at around 10:45pm on Friday.

But the two passersby were injured when splinters went off the second bomb during the deactivation about an hour later, Airport Police Station OC Noor-e-Azam Mia told bdnews24.com.

The OC said the splinters shattered window glasses of a police car parked near the site where the bomb disposal unit was working.

The Airport Road remained closed for around 10 minutes each in two rounds of bomb disposal.

The two injured people were sent to the hospital, the OC said, but could not identify them.

An airport police officer initially said it was a 'suicide attack', but Dhaka Metropolitan Police ruled it out as an attack of that nature.

DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said the explosion took place at a trolley bag a man was carrying through the area.

He declined to comment on whether militants were involved in the blast, which occurred a week after what the law-enforcing agencies said a suicide attack on a RAB camp in nearby Ashkona.