Bangladeshi Court Issues Arrest Warrant For Khaleda Zia For Role in 2015 Fire Bombing

An arrest warrant was issued by a Bangladesh court for former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia involving a deadly fire-bomb attack last year, a prosecutor told multiple media outlets Wednesday. In addition to Zia’s arrest warrant, the court also issued arrest warrant for 27 leaders and activists of Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party in connection with the petrol-bomb attack on a bus during a party protest in Dhaka in January 2015, Al Jazeera reported. "The court passed the order after accepting the charges against them.” – Shah Alam Talukdar, public prosecutor Political violence has killed at least 120 people and injured hundreds more – most in petrol-bomb attacks on vehicles...