Sylhet scene
Sylhet is distinguished as a 'spiritual city' because it is the abode of Hazrat Shahjalal (R) and three sixty saints. Awfully, the sanctity of this city is at stake after a sequence of bomb blasts within a short span of time. According to a DS report on August 7,2004, twenty-three people have been killed in fourteen explosions in last seven years in Sylhet. Amongst these blasts, two consecutive bomb attacks at Shahjalal (R) shrine cost seven lives and the apparent target of the second bombing was Anwar Chowdhury, the Honourable British High Commissioner to Bangladesh.
Something must be done about the situation in Sylhet. We do not want it to degenerate into a city of panic.
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