DHAKA, Nov 27: A Muslim extremist calling himself a member of Al Qaeda’s Bangladesh network on Sunday threatened to blow up a number of Western missions in Dhaka, Gulshan police said.

They told journalists on Sunday that the police had received a fax message from the British High Commission with a request for a general diary entry after the threat was received.

British High Commission’s First Secretary in Dhaka, Mike Stevenson, said in a general diary entry that Manik Hossain of Faridganj, identifying himself as a member of Al Qaeda, has threatened to blow up the UK mission along with other Western missions.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, S.M. Mizanur Rahman, said adequate security forces had already been deployed in areas where the missions were situated.