The marriage of a 13-year-old girl was prevented after her schoolmates marched in protest and lodged a police complaint in Satkhira town in southwestern Bangladesh.

Diarrhoea blamed on late monsoon floods has killed one child and stricken hundreds of others in south-western Bangladesh, relief officials said today.

Bombs have exploded in four cinemas in northern Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 200 others.

At least 10 people were killed and 200 wounded after four bombs exploded within minutes today at a packed cinema and a crowded circus in a town in south-western Bangladesh.