08 Aug 2004 14:07 UTC
The victim, a supporter of the opposition Awami League, was one of at least 30 people injured when a bomb exploded in a hotel parking lot. It went off shortly after the town's mayor got into his car. He was not hurt.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Last Thursday, a pair of bombs in Sylhet killed one person. Yet another blast last May killed three people.
Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.
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One man has now died, following a bomb blast late Saturday in the northeastern Bangladeshi town of Sylhet.
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The Awami League-backed mayor Badruddin Kamran told reporters he was the apparent target and that he had received death threats.