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Islamic State claims responsibility for Bangladesh bombings on Shias

ISIS has claimed responsibility for bombings that targeted Shias in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh's interior minister said that no militants were involved and the blasts were not linked to an attack that killed 16 people at a Shia procession in Pakistan hours earlier.

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People who sustained injuries in a series of blasts are surrounded by their relatives at a hospital in Dhaka. (Reuters photo)

DUBAI: Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for bombings that targeted Shias in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, on Saturday, the monitor group SITE said.

It cited Islamic State as saying "soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh" detonated explosive devices in Dhaka during "polytheist rituals". Islamic State — an ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim group that sees Shias as apostates — claimed responsibility for the attack.