Bangladesh Blasts···One Person Killed

A passenger bus was set on fire in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on Dec. 18, 2011. One person was killed in a small bomb explosion in Dhaka Sunday morning, police said.

The blast in Dhaka’s Motijheel commercial district was the result of a clash between the police and activists of Bangladesh’s main oppositional Nationalist Party, police said. It has not been known immediately whether the victim was the activist of the opposition party. <Photo: Xinhua>

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