Bangladesh says reports about plot to kill PM are 'baseless'

The office of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikha Hasina on Sunday denied as "completely baseless" some media reports of a plot by her bodyguards to kill her last month. However a senior minister said separately there had been an assassination conspiracy, without giving details. The prime minister's office issued a statement condemning the allegations carried in some news outlets as "completely baseless, misleading and motivated".
Deputy press secretary Mohammad Ashraful Alam said the rumours of an assassination attempt on August 24 by officers of Hasina's special security force were fabricated and damaging to the country.