Bangladeshi security forces killed 11 members of an Islamist militant group today blaming them for an attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July in which 22 people, mostly foreigners were killed.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters that the militants, believed to be members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, JMB were killed in three raids on militant hideouts on the outskirts of the Capital. Seven militants were killed in a raid on one hideout after police were tipped off that the JMB’s Dhaka unit chief and his associates were there.
Police have killed more than three dozen suspected militants in shootouts since the Dhaka cafe attack, including its presumed mastermind, Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury.