Bangladesh

September 2004 | Risk Summary

In the bloodiest attack in recent years, 19 people were killed and 150 injured when seven grenades exploded at a Dhaka rally of the opposition Awami League on August 21. Sheikh Hasina, a former premier, had just ended a speech to thousands of followers, and said later the attack was meant to kill her. In the series of bomb blasts, protest rallies and death threats that followed, the World Bank's country director became the first foreigner to receive a death threat and leave the

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