Blast in Bangladesh mosque kills suspected bomber; 3 wounded

But with militant groups such as the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and the notorious Islamic State (IS) recently targeting Shiite mosques in Bangladesh, it is highly likely that one among them is the perpetrator behind the attack.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt during the Friday Prayer at a mosque in a remote northern village in Bangladesh, witnesses and officials said, wounding three members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a tiny religious minority.

An explosion in a mosque of a minority Muslim sect on Friday killed a suspected bomber and wounded three other people in Bangladesh’s northwest, police said.

Besides, police on Friday night filed a case against some unidentified people in connection with the explosionh, said officer-in-charge of Bagmara Police Station Matiar Rahman.

“We are investigating whether it was a suicide attack or the attacker himself died in the blast when he tried to throw the bomb”, he said.

The Ahmadis have about 100,000 followers in Bangladesh, which is 90 percent Sunni Muslim.

Police launched an investigation into the latest attacks, but failed to make any headway into the probe as the suspected bomber could not be identified yet.

Two foreigners have also been shot dead – a Japanese farmer and an Italian aid worker – while several priests were threatened and two policemen hacked to death.

Bangladesh has suffered a wave of Islamist militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on mosques and Hindu temples.

Analysts say militants pose a growing danger in conservative Bangladesh and that a long-running political crisis has radicalised opponents of the government.