A Bangladesh anti-terrorist force killed two members of a banned Islamist group on Monday, a force spokesman said, the latest clash in a intensified a hunt for militants behind a spate of violence.
Members of the anti-terrorist unit raided an abandoned house on the outskirts of Dhaka in the early hours and killed two members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen militant group hiding there after they threw bombs, the force spokesman said.
“Our personnel had to retaliate by firing,” spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan told reporters.
A large amount of bomb-making material was found along with a pistol and some bullets, he said.