Bangladeshi Immigrant Set off a Bomb in USA

Bangladeshi Immigrant Set off a Bomb in USA

Ullah

A 27 year old immigrant from Bangladesh set off a crude bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York subway passage on Monday but the device failed to detonate properly, leaving him the only one seriously harmed. US authorities say Ullah migrated seven years ago as the member of a family already living there.

Ullah`s family hailed from Sandwip, an island off the coast of the southern port city of Chittagong but his father had left for the capital Dhaka some 30 years ago. Ullah married two years ago, but did not take his wife to the US.

In July last year, militants stormed a Dhaka cafe and massacred 22 hostages, including 18 foreigners, in an assault claimed by the IS. Bangladesh arrested an alleged militant last month from Ansarullah Bangla Team, a homegrown extremist group with links to Al Qaeda, over the 2015 murder of a prominent Bangladesh origin American blogger in Dhaka.

The Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC condemned the New York bomb attack and restated Bangladesh`s "zero tolerance" approach to extremism. 

"A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his or her ethnicity or religion, and must be brought to justice," the embassy said in a statement.