Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bombings that targeted Shias in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, on Saturday, the monitor group SITE said.<br />Earlier on Saturday, a series of blasts killed at least one person and wounded dozens as Shia Muslims gathered for a procession in the old part of Bangladesh's capital to mark the holy day of Ashura, police said.<br />However, Bangladesh's interior minister told Reuters that no militants were involved and the blasts were not linked to an attack that killed 16 people at a Shia procession in Pakistan hours earlier.<br />"This is a clear sign of a deteriorated law and order," said Moqbul Ahmed, the acting amir of the country's largest Sunni-Muslim Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.
