3 arrested for Shia shrine blasts in B’desh

Bangladeshi police has arrested three people in connection with the bomb blasts here targeting Shia community that claimed the life of a 12-year-old boy in an attack claimed by the dreaded Islamic State militant group.

“Three men were detained after the blasts and were handed over to the detective branch for questioning,” Dhaka police’s assistant deputy commissioner Sanjib Kumar Roy told reporters.

A boy was killed and about 90 others injured in yesterday’s blasts targeting a Shia procession in front of Huseni Dalan, the community’s main shrine in the Bangladeshi capital.

Police filed a case over the bomb explosions under the tough Anti Terrorism Act, accusing unidentified miscreants. Police suspects that the Husseini Dalan attack was carried out by the same group who murdered a police officer three days ago in the capital.

“Now we have reasons to believe the attack and the murder of our ASI (assistant sub-inspector) are interlinked,” police chief AKM Shahidul Hoque said.