Police question 58 suspects over Bangladesh bomb

Bangladeshi police questioned 58 suspected Islamic militants today after a man detonated a bomb outside a government building, killing one person and wounding at least 29 others, authorities said.

The bomb, apparently hidden in a tea flask, exploded yesterday outside a sprawling complex that houses the chief government administrator's office and a courthouse in Gazipur, north of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.

Days earlier, suspected Islamic suicide bombers killed seven people in the same town.

Emergency workers rushed 16 of the most seriously injured to a hospital, where one person died of shrapnel injuries, said Mozammel Haq, a doctor at the state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Islamic militants have repeatedly targeted lawyers and judges in Bangladesh, accusing them of promoting secular laws instead of Islamic Sharia rule.