Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tribute to the victims of the August 21 grenade attack by placing a wreath at the memorial in front of the Awami League’s central office on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka on Monday morning.

She placed wreaths first as Prime minister and later as the AL president at the memorial built in memory of the victims of the grenade attack.

Twenty-four people, including then-president of Awami Mohila League and the late president Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman were killed in the attack on August 21, 2004.

Over 500 others suffered splinter wounds in the attack and many of them were disabled for life.

The attack was carried out on an anti-terrorism rally of the Awami League on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka.

Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped fatal injury in the attack. However, her hearing was impaired by the impact of the repeated grenade blasts that occurred near the truck-dais at the huge public rally.

BDST: 1157 HRS, AUG 21, 2023
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