Bangladeshi opposition leader attacked weeks before national elections

Kamal Hossain, an octogenarian Oxford-educated international jurist now heading an opposition alliance, was not hurt when his convoy was attacked in Dhaka.

Ruling party activists in Bangladesh attacked a veteran opposition leader on Friday as he travelled through Dhaka, the opposition said, injuring about 12 supporters and inflaming tension just over two weeks before a general election.

Kamal Hossain, an octogenarian Oxford-educated international jurist now heading an opposition alliance, was not hurt when his convoy was attacked by men wielding sticks and stones as he returned from placing flowers on a memorial to victims of Bangladesh's independence war, an opposition spokesman said.

"At least 12 workers and activists of the alliance were injured and several vehicles of senior leaders damaged,” the opposition spokesman, Latiful