Dual blasts rocked the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Sunday when “cocktail" bombs targeted the party office of National Citizen Party (NCP) and the home of an interim goverment adviser.

The first blasts targeted the residence of Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser to the Ministries of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Water Resources, in the Central Road area of the capital city around 9:00pm (local time). Two crude bombs exploded outside Hasan’s home, though news outlet Prothom Alo said that no one was injured.

Shortly afterwards, another bomb blast targeted the office of NCP in the Banglamotors neighbourhood of Dhaka. Police told Bangladeshi news outlets that there were no casualties.

Two crude bombs exploded at the SAARC Fountain intersection in the Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area aro

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