World Bank Country Director Christine I Wallich has left Bangladesh after receiving a death threat on Tuesday, an official with the multilateral lending agency said yesterday.
A letter was sent to her Gulshan residence marking her as the next target of bomb attacks that prompted her to leave Dhaka the same night, sources said. Wallich, an American citizen, is the first foreigner known to have received a death threat since the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally that killed 20 people.