Bomb blasts rock Bangladesh terminals, none hurt

DHAKA, May 1 (Reuters) Three simultaneous bomb blasts rocked separate railway terminals in Bangladesh today, officials said.

Nobody was hurt in the blasts but they triggered panic among commuters who evacuated stations.

Thin metal sheets scribbled with militant slogans claiming to be from a al Qaeda network were found at the bomb sites in Dhaka's Kamalapur and Sylhet terminals. The third blast was in southeastern Chittagong railway terminals.

''... If Hazrat (Prophet) Mohammad is not declared the superman of the world by May 10, all non-governmental organisations will be blown up,'' the slogans read.

The outlawed Islamist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen carried out a series of nationwide bomb blasts in Bangladesh on August 17, 2005, killing three people and injuring over 100.

Six leaders of the group and the outlawed Jagrata Muslim Janata were executed on March 30 this year for their role in the blasts.

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