2 injured as Ctg Mancha rally comes under bomb attack

A jubilant procession brought out in Chittagong on Sunday afternoon by the supporters of Ganajagaran Mancha following ICT-1’s verdict awarding capital punishment to Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali for his wartime offences, came under bomb attack. At least two people were critically injured in the explosions. Police, quoting witnesses said several hundred activists of Ganajagaran Mancha, a mass platform demanding maximum penalty to all convicted of war crimes, on Sunday held a short rally in front of ‘Mohamaya Bhaban’, better known as Dalim Hotel, where Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali set up one of his offices in 1971. After the ICT-1’s verdict against Mir Quasem, Mancha supporters took out a procession from there and the procession was heading to Chittagong Shaheed Minar. The bomb exploded in front of Islamia Market at Cinema Palace Intersection while the procession was in KC Dey Road. Two people, including a photojournalist, were injured. The procession, however, passed the site to reach the Shaheed Minar. Sumon Babu, a photojournalist of bdnews24.com who witnessed the incident, said he was out to take photos of the march on a motorcycle with photographer Aminul Islam Munna. A rickshaw-puller and Munna, photographer for local newspaper ‘Dainik Azadi’, were injured after the blast hit the procession, he said, according to bdnews24.com.