| 2002 Satkhira bombing | |
| Location: | Satkhira, Bangladesh |
| Target: | general public |
| Date: | 28 September 2002 |
| Type: | Triple murder; bomb attack; terrorism |
| Weapons: | Time bombs |
| Fatalities: | 3 |
| Injuries: | 100 |
2002 Satkhira bombing was a double bomb attack on 28 September 2002 of Roxy cinema hall and a circus tent in Satkhira District, Bangladesh that killed 3 people and injured 100 others.[1] [2] [3]
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, a Bangladeshi Islamist terrorist organization, carried out attacks on the early 2000s in public places in Bangladesh.
A bomb was placed in a Roxy cinema hall and another inside a circus tent in Satkhira District on 28 September 2002. Three people died in the explosion and 100 others were injured.[4] [5] The first bomb went off in the cinema hall and minutes later the bomb in the circus went off.[6] Time bombs were used in the attacks.[7] Similar attacks took place in Mymensingh in the Mymensingh cinema bombings.[8]