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Cocktail bomb explodes outside Mukherjee's Dhaka hotel

Dhaka, Mar 4: A crude cocktail bomb was hurled Monday by two motorcycle borne youths at the hotel where Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is staying. No one was injured in the “minor explosion”.The minor explosion



Three more people died in fresh clashes in Shatkheera and in Sirazganj by protesting Jamaat members Monday, taking the toll since last Thursday to over 70.



The incident comes a day after opposition leader Khaleda Zia, in an apparent snub, called off a meeting with Mukherjee.

The Bangladesh National Party chief and former chief minister was to meet Mukherjee Monday evening.

She had met him last year during her India visit. Her party is in alliance with the Jamaat.

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