The Christian minority in Bangladesh are shaken and scared after three crude bomb attacks on two churches and a Catholic school in the country over the past few weeks, according to an AFP report. No injuries have been reported so far.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks or given reasons for the targets, but police confirmed the attacks were “certainly” designed to sow terror, it added.

Then, overnight Friday (November 7), attackers targeted two more Catholic locations — St Mary's Cathedral and St Joseph's School and College.

Notably, Bangladesh's Christian community are a small minority numbering 5,00,000 in the country of 17 crore people, it said.

What has police said?

Dhaka police spokesman Muhammad Talebur Rahman told AFP, “We are trying to determine whether the inc

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