DHAKA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- The Bangladeshi government has banned motorcyclists from carrying more than one passenger for preventing militant attacks.
A day after spouse of a top Bangladeshi police officer was shot dead by suspected militants in the country's seaport city Chittagong, some 242 km southeast of capital Dhaka, Bangladesh's Ministry of Home Affairs Monday imposed the ban.
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Iqbal Bahar Sunday said that three assailants riding a motorcycle committed the murder.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday at a press briefing in Dhaka made the announcement on the the government's decision.
He said the decision has been taken for public safety in view of motorcycles being used to carry out terror attacks.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh has been facing a surge in violent attacks in recent years. A number of secularist writers, bloggers and publishers in Bangladesh have been killed or seriously injured in attacks perpetrated by extremists since 2013.
In most of the cases, it was noticed that the attacks were carried out by motorcycle-borne assailants.
After murdering two persons including editor of a LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) magazine in April this year by unidentified assailants in capital Dhaka, CCTV footage showed killers fled the scene by motorcycles.
