Attack on journos condemned
09/02/2005 15:06  - (SA)  

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Dhaka - International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has expressed outrage at a bomb attack on a press club in Bangladesh and called on the country's home minister to protect the journalists.

Four journalists were injured, one seriously, on Saturday when a remote-controlled device exploded at the Khulna club, 200km southwest of the capital Dhaka.

Sheikh Belaluddin Ahmed of the Bengali daily Sangram has been brought to an intensive care unit of a military hospital in Dhaka and put on a ventilator.

"Your government is currently stepping up security for around 50 key figures, following a series of bombings," the watchdog group said in a letter to the home minister.

"We urge you not to forget the Khulna region, where journalists are constantly the targets of extreme violence," said the letter received here Wednesday.

Reporters without borders described Bangladesh in its 2003 annual report as "by far the world's most violent country for journalists". During 2002 some 250 journalists were assaulted and three murdered, it noted.

An editor of a newspaper in the northwestern city of Bogra was killed last October by five axe-wielding youths described by police as hired killers.

Bangladesh's Information Minister Shamsul Islam condemned the Khulna bombing, saying the government was determined to catch and punish the culprits.

- AFP

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