DHAKA, Sept. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Two persons including a child were killed and 10 others injured in a bomb blast on Sunday in Sylhet of northeastern Bangladesh.

    Police and hospital sources said the blast occurred in the morning in a building near a cinema and an army garrison on the outskirts of Sylhet city, 333 km away from the capital Dhaka.

    Police and other security forces including the army have cordoned off the cinema and an adjacent house.

    No party has claimed responsibility of the blasts yet, and police has so far not found who might be behind the blast.

    The private news agency United News of Bangladesh said the bombblew off on the verandah of the building, only about 200 yards from the cantonment.

    Witnesses said the powerful blast blew up the roof of the building and caused a big hole in the ground.

    This incident coincided with the arrival of Counter-Terrorism Coordinator of the US State Department Cofer Black in Dhaka on Sunday to help Bangladeshi government probe into the grenade attack at a opposition rally in Dhaka on Aug. 21, killing 20.

    Sunday's bomb blast in Sylhet is the latest of a chain of bombing incidents this year in the northeastern city, beginning from a bomb explosion at a shrine of the city in January, 2004, killing two.

    Another bombing at the same shrine in May killed three people and injured over 100 including British High Commissioner for Bangladesh Anwar Chowdhury.

    Two other bombs exploded near two cinema halls in Sylhet city in August, leaving one boy dead and many others injured. Enditem