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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.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 2001 Six persons killed and approximately 50 others injured in two separate bomb blasts at a leftist political rally in Dhaka.
Google | 2001 Eight people killed in a bomb explosion set off by suspected Islamic fundamentalists at a Bengali New Year cultural function in Dhaka.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 2003 A bomb ripped through a village in northern Bangladesh during an annual carnival, killing six people and wounding six others.
Google | 2004 Two persons are killed and 37 others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at the shrine of Saint Shahjalal in Sylhet.
Google | 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.
Google | 2004 Suspected Islamist extremists stab prominent writer Humayun Azad in front of the Bangla Academy in capital Dhaka.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 2004 In Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2 people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 2005 RAB officials arrest the 'operation commander' of the Bangladesh chapter of the Harkatul Jihad, Mufti Abdul Hannan, from Madhya Badda in Dhaka city.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 2005 Police have detained a total of 97 people over 2 days in connection with 3 bombings which killed 14 people.
Google | 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.
Google | 2007 Bangla Bhai, who has been kept in Kashimpur Jail, submitted his mercy petition to the President.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 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.
Google | 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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