Word: bangabandhu
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Sitting inside his sports-goods store on Dhaka's centrally located Bangabandhu Avenue, Rahim Ali could clearly hear the voice of Sheikh Hasina, the leader of his country's opposition, as she addressed a mammoth rally just outside his shop. Soon after Hasina's speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started shaking and cracking. Outside on the avenue, Delwar Hossain, a 26-year-old seller of peanuts, heard a loud noise and thought at first that the tire of a truck must have burst. A moment later, Quddus Miah, a street-side garment vendor, saw thousands of people, many wounded...
...What happened on Bangabandhu Avenue on that evening of Aug. 21 was extraordinary even by the bloody standards of Bangladesh?a nation that has endured at least 21 major bomb blasts that have killed 158 people in the past six years. The attack occurred during a rally attended by some 15,000 people, just after Hasina?a former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founder?had delivered a speech protesting a series of bomb attacks on her party workers in the city of Sylhet. As Hasina prepared to leave, hand grenades began raining...