Police said nine suspects were killed in a safehouse after a two-hour gun battle in the capital, Dhaka.
killed nine people following a two-hour gun battle in the city.
One suspect was arrested following the police operation in the city’s Kalyanpur neighbourhood in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Masud Ahmed said.
"Nine Islamist militants were killed after two hour-long gunfight," Masud Ahmed said.
Police said the nine were killed during a raid on a five-story building suspected of being a safehouse.
"All of them belong to a militant group but still it is not clear which group they are," an unnamed police official told Reuters.
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