DHAKA: Three small homemade bombs exploded after being hurled at the home of Bangladesh’s foreign minister early yesterday but no one was injured, police said.
Dipu Moni is in London but her family was at home when the bombs were thrown, spokesman Monirul Islam Kabir said.
“The three cocktails were hurled from outside and exploded at the roof of the foreign minister’s house in the capital,” said Kabir, referring to the crude homemade bombs popular among protesters.
“Her husband and their two children were in the house at the time of the explosion,” he added.
Deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Maruf Hossain said that police recovered evidence of at least two bombs from the roof.
Australian guards lose German jewel thief in Bangkok
SYDNEY: Australian immigration officials confirmed yesterday that a German jewel thief transiting through Bangkok under escort managed to escape his guards and flee the airport in an embarrassing bungle.
Carlo Konstantin Kohl, was being extradited to Germany via Thailand when bad weather forced an extended stopover at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport and his two Australian guards decided to take him to a transit lounge.
During the overnight layover Kohl, convicted in Australia of stealing opals, drug trafficking and wanted for skipping parole in his native Germany, managed to give his escorts the slip and escape the airport.
Immigration department chief Martin Bowles confirmed the May 15 incident but denied Thai media reports that the two guards, from a private firm that runs Australia’s immigration security, were asleep when he got away. AGENCIES
