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To: Velveeta
I don't get it, did they let this guy back on the bus? What do they mean that they tried to get the bus to stop, but were unsuccessful??

You're right, like all of these other similar stories, it raises more questions than it answers.

1,387 posted on 05/21/2004 6:39:33 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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One dead in Bangla blast; British envoy among over 100 injured

Dhaka, May 21. (UNI, PTI): The New British High Commissioner in Bangladesh Anwar Chouwdhury and more than 100 others including senior government officials and policemen were wounded in a powerful bomb blast in the eastern town of Sylhet after today's Jumma prayer. The blast occurred at the shrine of saint Hazrat Shahjalal in Sylhet.(snip)

(snip)Bangladesh-born British High Commissioner to Dhaka, Anwar Chowdhury, was among about 50 people injured today when a bomb exploded at a Muslim shrine in north-eastern Bangladesh.

A duty officer at the British High Commission in Dhaka said the High Commissioner has been injured and admitted into a hospital in Sylhet. Two of his security guards were also injured.

Chowdhury, 43, had gone to visit the shrine as part of his three-day trip to his home district Sunamganj, just days after taking over as the High Commissioner to Bangladesh, reports reaching here said.

About 50 people, including Chawdhury and his bodyguard, were injured in the blast. The extent of the British envoy's injuries was not known immediately.(snip)

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/001200405211856.htm


1,388 posted on 05/21/2004 6:44:15 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: freeperfromnj; All

You're right too, it's going to be a busy day!

Foul play suspected in radioactive exposure (India)

PUNE: In a shocking admission, chairman of the atomic energy commission (AEC) Anil Kakodkar on Friday said the cause of exposure of three employees at one of the units at the Bhabha atomic research centre (Barc) near Tarapore was a "disciplinary one, and not accidental."

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a programme at the college of military engineering (CME), Kakodkar, who is also the secretary of the department of atomic energy (DAE) suspected foul play in the incident, and said a full inquiry has been initiated to find out as to how the "radioactive bottle’ was found at a place where it was not supposed to be. (snip.....weird....read the rest of the link)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/689860.cms


1,392 posted on 05/21/2004 7:03:36 AM PDT by Velveeta
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