Bigger attacks than the Aug. 17 string of countrywide blasts and killing of non-Muslim leaders in Bangladesh have been planned by some terrorist groups, intelligence services informed the government on Sunday.

The Bengali daily Ittefaq reported Monday that the intelligence agencies have suggested the government should strengthen further the security measures across the country.

The intelligent services have submitted a special report to the home ministry in which they disclosed the plan of the terrorist groups.

The countrywide bomb blasts on Aug. 17 ripped through the capital city and 63 of the 64 district headquarters, killing two persons and injured around 150 others.

The home ministry in faxed messages to all the district administrations asked the administrations to ensure security to life and property of people and to hold regular meetings with the people's representatives and security forces, the report said.

The daily quoting an unnamed source as saying that to build up a strong anti-government opinion at home and abroad, the groups have planned to hit non-Muslim religious leaders.

"Three establishments of other faiths have been targeted," the intelligence report pointed out, saying that they are Dhakeswari Temple, the main temple of the Hindus in Bangladesh, the church at Tejgaon and the Buddhist temple at Kamlapur.

The daily said, to make the western countries angry toward Bangladeshi government, the group has planned to kill local and foreign priests, and other leaders who are preaching religions in the country. To this effect a militant group was active in Bangladesh's second largest city Chittagong, the intelligence report was quoted as saying by the daily.

After submission of the sensitive reports, the home ministry had a long meeting with intelligence people on Sunday, in which the ministry asked the police force to beef up security measures around these establishments and the priests and religious leaders, the report said, adding that this security measures will continue until further order.

After the series of bomb blasts on Aug. 17, over 100 suspected persons were arrested from different parts of Bangladesh.

According to local media, after primary inquiry by police, some suspected persons admitted that they are members of a banned Muslim group, the Jamaatul Mujahideen, headed by Abdur Rahman, and their organization blasted the bombs across Bangladesh.

Abdur Rahman reportedly went into hiding after Dr. Galib, a teacher of Rajshahi University and the second man of the group, was arrested in February this year.

Source: Xinhua