Bangladesh Blasts Kill 1, Injure Dozens

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Updated Apr. 13, 2017 6:35PM EDT / Published Oct. 24, 2015 8:38AM EDT

ISIS claimed responsibility for a series of blasts that killed at least one person and wounded dozens in Bangladesh’s capital city early Saturday, though the country’s interior minister says no militants were involved. “This is not a militant attack, rather it is a planned and destructive attack aiming only to destabilize the situation of the country,” Interior Minister Asaduzzman Khan told Reuters. The attacks came as Shi’ite Muslims gathered for a procession.

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Bangladesh Blasts Kill 1, Injure Dozens