Five killed in Maoist attack in Bangladesh

[Chicom]

DHAKA (AFP) - Four policemen and a ruling party official were killed in an attack by suspected Maoist rebels on a crowded market in northern Bangladesh, police said.
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The assailants hurled several bombs and fired bullets at the crowded cattle market in Chowbaria, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the capital Dhaka, local police chief Shahidur Rahman said on Friday.

"They snatched the weapons of the injured officers and slaughtered them on the spot," he said, adding a local official in the ruling Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP) was also killed in the attack.

More than a dozen bystanders were injured and taken to area hospitals, Rahman added.

A large contingent of police rushed to the town, but there were no immediate reports of any arrests, the police chief said.

Police said they suspected the notorious Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was behind the attack.

Maoist groups such as PBCP and its many offshoots operate in a large swathe of northern and western Bangladesh.

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Bangledesh? Wdf

[Tiki Man]

A majority of Marxist (and Maoist) news items occur in that region of the world, Eastern India and Bangladesh. I will also state that the article could have been written better.


In the past, they have targeted policemen, politicians, journalists and people, who they deem as their "class enemies".
Apparently, they deem "people" as class enemies, and target them because of it.
That's one of the few organisations I've heard of that declares its enemy to be people.

[Janus]

Bangledesh? Wdf
As guerrilla fighters, they're pretty mobile. It seems that there are Maoists in Bangladesh as well though I'm unsure of their strength or connections with the Indian Maoists.