Japanese tourist injured in attack on bus in Bangladesh

Posted on September 21, 2013 • Filed under: Asia, Tourist Injured

Sitting by the window, Shiho Nishiyamy was travelling back to Dhaka from her three-day trip to Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night, as reported by thedailystar.net. Suddenly, the bus was showered with bricks and stones from both sides, and a projectile struck her left eye holing through the window pane. “Her eye was bleeding,” said Krishna Raj, supervisor of the Hanif Paribahan bus, which came under the attack by pickets during the second day of Jamaat-e-Islami’s 48-hour shutdown when it reached Keranihat of Satkania upazila, Chittagong around 11:00pm. Read article

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