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A crude weaponry exploded extracurricular the caput bureau of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunus, successful Dhaka's Mirpur connected Monday (November 10, 2025), constabulary said.
"Two miscreants connected a motorcycle arrived and hurled the crude weaponry successful beforehand of the roadworthy of the Grameen Bank astatine astir 3.45 a.m.," a constabulary authoritative said.
“Nobody has been arrested yet, but by present we person launched a run to way down the miscreants,” the officer-in-charge of Mirpur constabulary presumption told reporters.
The onslaught was 1 of the galore instances of sporadic unit that person deed Dhaka amid brewing tensions successful Bangladesh's governmental landscape.
Early connected Monday (November 10, 2025), unidentified men besides exploded improvised bombs successful beforehand of a concern outlet of 1 of Mr. Yunus' advisers and acceptable 2 buses ablaze successful the capital.
Police said nary casualty was reported successful the attacks successful beforehand of Grameen Bank, and the Prabartana — a concern owned by fisheries and livestock advisor Farida Akhter.
Mr. Yunus, who is presently the Chief Adviser of the interim government, founded the Grameen Bank successful 1983 and won the Nobel Peace Prize successful 2006 for his enactment successful poorness alleviation and the empowerment of mediocre women done it.
According to police, the explosions successful Prabartana astatine the Mohammadpur country occurred astir 7:10 a.m., erstwhile 2 motorcycle-borne miscreants "hurled the crude bombs successful beforehand of the establishment, some of which exploded with large bangs."
One of the crude bombs besides landed wrong the premises of the outlet.
Meanwhile, constabulary said “unidentified miscreants” besides exploded crude bombs astatine 2 places successful the city’s posh Dhanmondi area.
Motorcycle riders detonated 2 bombs adjacent Ibn Sina Hospital, said to beryllium tally by Jamaat-e-Islami, and different 2 successful beforehand of a large crossing.
Separately, a 50-year-old man, "listed gangster", was changeable down successful beforehand of a infirmary successful the aged portion of Dhaka hours later.
Police said they were looking for clues to place his assailants.
He had narrowly escaped an onslaught successful 2023, 3 months earlier which helium was released connected bail aft spending 26 years successful prison, The Daily Star paper reported.
The incidents came arsenic constabulary escalated their vigil, staging information drills crossed the metropolis up of November 13, erstwhile Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) is acceptable to hole the day for handing its verdict against deposed premier curate Sheikh Hasina aft proceedings successful absentia.
The ICT-BD prosecution squad demanded Hasina’s superior punishment, peculiarly for her attempts to ruthlessly tame past year’s convulsive student-led thoroughfare protestation dubbed the July Uprising, which toppled her Awami League regime.
The Bangladesh superior has been witnessing predominant flash marches for the past respective months erstwhile Hasina’s present disbanded Awami League activists abruptly look connected the streets, signifier processions and past disperse.
Police said they arrested implicit 3,000 activists of the “banned party” until past month, and the fig accrued arsenic raids were carried retired each time to apprehension more.
Bangladesh service troops person been deployed for the past 15 months successful assistance of civilian power, and past week, fractional of their astir 60,000 unit connected policing duties were brought backmost to barracks for remainder and training.
But the concern appeared precarious arsenic a seven-day deadline acceptable by the interim authorities for governmental parties to scope a statement connected the referendum connected 84 betterment proposals, immoderate of which contradict the existing constitution and the implementation of the July Charter, expires connected Monday (November 10, 2025).
Awami League remained absent from the governmental country arsenic the interim authorities disbanded the enactment until its leaders were “served justice,” portion ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged arsenic the frontrunner, with its erstwhile state Jamaat being its main rival.
But BNP binned the authorities connection for settling its differences with Jamaat done dialogue, saying it was a “government-created crisis” up of the planned nationalist elections successful February.
