Updated: 03/04/2013 18:12 | By Agence France-Presse

Blast near Indian president's hotel in Dhaka

Protesters threw a home-made petrol bomb near the hotel of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee in the Bangladesh capital on Monday amid new deadly protests in the country, an Indian official said.

Blast near Indian president's hotel in Dhaka

Blast near Indian president's hotel in Dhaka

The foreign ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that "protesters threw a crude cocktail bomb near the gate of the hotel where the Indian president is staying in Dhaka".

The official said that nobody was injured and the president would continue his three-day state visit which is set to finish on Tuesday.

It is not yet known whether Mukherjee was present in the Sonargaon hotel at the time of the explosion.

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