Injured ‘bomb maker’ dies

A 35-year-old man, who sustained injuries in an explosion while allegedly making bombs in Kushtia district, succumbed to his wounds at Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Abu Bakkar, a resident of Bilgathua village in Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia. Mohammad Shafique, officer-in-charge of Daulatpur police station, said that Bakkar and his wife Madhubala, 30, were injured when a bomb exploded in their house last Thursday.

They were initially taken to Kushtia General Hospital, from where Bakkar was shifted to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital where he died at 7pm on Tuesday.