Police questioned eight suspects today after a suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded Bangladesh street, killing himself and six others in the latest attack blamed on extremists wanting to create an Islamic state.

A powerful bomb ripped through a crowded street in northern Bangladesh today, killing at least six people and wounding dozens in an attack police said may have been carried out by a suicide bomber on a bicycle.

At least 38 people were killed and hundreds injured when tornadoes tore through northern Bangladesh blowing away thousands of flimsy huts, officials said today.

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains have trapped nearly 50,000 people in their villages and damaged hundreds of houses in northern Bangladesh.