BanglaCapsule | Terrorism in Bangladesh Timeline  

1999 Shamsur Rahman, renowned poet, was attacked by HuJI-B militant at his residence in Shyamali locality in Dhaka in a failed bid to kill him.
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1999 Ten persons killed and over 150 injured when two bombs planted by suspected religious extremists explode at a cultural function at Udichi's 12th Conference in Jessore district.
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1999 Seven persons of the Ahamadiya sect killed and some 40 injured when a bomb planted by Islamic terrorists explodes during Friday prayers at the Kadiani Mosque in Khulna.
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2001 Six persons killed and approximately 50 others injured in two separate bomb blasts at a leftist political rally in Dhaka.
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2001 Eight people killed in a bomb explosion set off by suspected Islamic fundamentalists at a Bengali New Year cultural function in Dhaka.
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2001 An estimated 21 persons killed and over 100 others injured in a bomb explosion at the ruling Awami League Party office at Narayanganj town at night.
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2001 Two bomb explosions rock Sathkhira town injuring more than 125 persons. The blasts are reported at a local cinema and a circus. Police suspect the involvement of Islamic Shashantantra Andolon (ISA) for the attack.
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2002 19 people were killed, and more than 300 injured in a series of bomb blasts at four cinemas on Eid holiday evening in the district town of Mymensingh, some 150 kms north of Dhaka.
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2003 A bomb ripped through a village in northern Bangladesh during an annual carnival, killing six people and wounding six others.
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2004 Two persons are killed and 37 others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at the shrine of Saint Shahjalal in Sylhet.
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2004 Manik Saha, a Bangladeshi reporter for the New Age newspaper and the BBC, was leaving a press club when unidentified attackers hurled a bomb at him. He was the first journalist in the world to be murdered in 2004.
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2004 Suspected Islamist extremists stab prominent writer Humayun Azad in front of the Bangla Academy in capital Dhaka.
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2004 Two persons are killed and at least 100 others, including the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Chowdhury, sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at the Hazrat Shahjalal shrine in Sylhet town.
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2004 A bomb exploded in the parking lot of a hotel in northeastern Bangladesh city where the opposition-backed mayor was holding a meeting, wounding at least 50 people.
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2004 In Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2 people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast.
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2005 Former Finance Minister, Shah AMS Kibria, and four other Awami League (AL) activists are killed and at least 70 persons sustain injuries during a grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally at Boidder Bazaar in the Habiganj district.
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2005 In much of Bangladesh traffic ground to a halt and shops closed as a nationwide strike, protesting a deadly grenade attack on the main opposition party, entered a 2nd day.
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2005 RAB officials arrest the 'operation commander' of the Bangladesh chapter of the Harkatul Jihad, Mufti Abdul Hannan, from Madhya Badda in Dhaka city.
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2005 In southeastern Bangladesh several bombs went off in crowded court buildings in Chittagong, Chandpur and Laxmipur towns. 2 people were killed and at least 25 wounded.
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2005 Seven people including a lawyer were killed and 78 others injured in two suicide bomb attacks by Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), on Chittagong and Gazipur court premises. First such suicide attack in Bangladesh history.
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2005 Police have detained a total of 97 people over 2 days in connection with 3 bombings which killed 14 people.
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2005 Two suicide bombers of banned Jama'atul Mujahiden Bangladesh (JMB) struck again within a week, this time in Netrokona in front of an office of a cultural organisation Udichi, killing eight people and injuring 50 others.
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2007 Bangla Bhai, who has been kept in Kashimpur Jail, submitted his mercy petition to the President.
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2007 Three near-simultaneous bombs rocked three divisional railway stations in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet leaving a person injured. An Islamic militant outfit Jadid al-Qaeda Bangladesh claimed the responsibility for the blasts demanding end of activities of NGOs and Quadiani Muslim community in Bangladesh.
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2007 Operations commander of HuJI-B Mufti Abdul Hannan told the interrogators that the operatives of his outfit had attacked late poet Shamsur Rahman with intent to kill him on his orders on January 18, 1999.
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2015 Bangladesh bans Islamist militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team (also called Ansar Bangla), which claims responsibility for killing and assaulting several pro-secular public figures.
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2016 Five militant gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in Gulshan, took hostages and opened fire killing 20 including 17 foreign nationals.
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