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Bangladesh on alert following bombs
Sunday, 8 December 2002 07:25Bangladeshi troops are patrolling a town in the north of the country after four separate bomb attacks in cinemas in the town killed 17 people.
The government has ordered a nationwide security alert amid fears that the al Qaeda network or another terrorist group might be responsible.
Fifty-seven of those injured in the blast are said to be in a critical condition.
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