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4 dead after attack on Eid gathering in Bangladesh

NEW DELHI -- Terror struck Bangladesh for the second time within a week as the Muslim-majority nation celebrated the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr on Thursday.

An explosion was followed by a gunfight between police and terrorists near a mass prayer ground in Kishoreganj area, about 100 kilometers from Bangladeshi's capital Dhaka, where around two hundred thousand people had turned up on the occasion of Eid, according to Indian media reports.

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