2004 Shah Jalal bombing

2004 Shah Jalal bombing
Location	sylhet, Bangladesh
Date	21 May 2004 (UTC+06:00)
Target	The British High Commissioner to Bangladesh
Attack type	Mass murder; bomb attack; terrorism
Deaths	2 dead
Injured	70
Perpetrators	Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami

2004 Shah Jalal bombing was a terrorist grenade attack on the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Anwar Choudhury. the High Commissioner was injured in the attack and two bystanders were killed. The attack was carried out by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami.

Background

The Shah Jalal shrine is a 700 year old Sufi site located in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Anwar Choudhury, the British high Commissioner went to visit Sylhet which was his ancestral home. He visited the shrine on 21 May 2004. He offer prayers at the Shrine and was greeting the people who had come to see him. The shrine was bombed in January of the 2004 which resulted in the death of 5 people.

Attack

The Bomb was thrown at the envoy when he was talking with the people present. The bomb hit him on his stomach but did not explode on impact but bounced off and landed near the feet of the District commissioner where it exploded.