2017 Dhaka RAB camp suicide bombing

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2017 Dhaka RAB camp suicide bombing
Part of Terrorism in Bangladesh
Location Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Target RAB
Weapons explosive belt
Deaths1
Injured2
PerpetratorsIslamic State flag.svg  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Assailantsone suicide bomber

The 2017 Dhaka RAB Camp suicide bombing was an attempted suicide attack in the under construction compound of the elite Rapid Action Battalion in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 17 March 2017. [1] The suicide attempt failed to cause any mass casualties, injuries or deaths. Only the lone suicide bomber died.

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Background

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant had called for suicide attacks in Bangladesh on 15 March 2017. [2] Suicide attacks are rare in Bangladesh. [3]

Attack

On 17 March 2017 a suicide bomber the entered under-construction Rapid Action Battalion headquarters in Ashkona, Dhaka, Bangladesh and detonated his vest. [4] The suspected bomber was killed in the explosion and two RAB officers were injured. The injured officers, Lance Corporal Mizan and Constable Arif, were rushed to Dhaka Combined Military Hospital. The incident happened outside a makeshift camp located near the Haji Camp at Ashkona. The assault comes only two days after ISIL called for suicide attacks in Bangladesh, and one day after two militants of New JMB group blew themselves up to evade arrest by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit during a raid in Chittagong's Sitakunda. The attack happened at Bangladeshi Local time 1:10 P.M. in Uttara, Bangladesh. [2] [5] [6]

The attack followed what had been a lull in Islamist attacks in Bangladesh. [7] [8]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for this terror attack. [7] [9]

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References

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  5. ঢাকায় রযাবের ক্যাম্পে বোমা বিস্ফোরণে নিহত ১. BBC News (in Bengali). 17 March 2017.
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