Suicide Bomber on Bicycle Kills 6 in Bangladesh

NETRAKONA, Bangladesh — A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up on a crowded street Thursday, killing six people and wounding dozens, Bangladeshi authorities said.

Among the injured was a would-be bomber who police said failed to detonate his explosives.

The suicide blast ripped through a crowd of hundreds of people who had gathered on a narrow street in this northern town after police safely detonated another bomb found inside a building.

There was no claim of responsibility, but officials blamed the attack on Jumatul Mujahedin Bangladesh, a banned Islamic group believed to be behind a wave of blasts that has killed 21 people in the last two weeks.

A police officer at the scene said a handwritten leaflet warning police to follow Islamic law and stop protecting “man-made” laws was found near the site, about 80 miles north of the capital, Dhaka.