AMN
At least four people were killed as Islamists launched a retaliation, also injuring over 30 onlookers and security personnel as an army assault was underway at a nearby militant hideout in Sylhet northern part of Bangladesh Saturday.
Two police personnel and a journalist were among the injured.
Golam Kibria, Police Commissioner of Sylhet told reporters that the blast occurred this evening in the vicinity of the five-storey building where the para-military cammandos along with police were conducting the anti-militant operation.
“The dead are police’s court inspector Chowdhury Abu Koisor, college student Wahidul Islam Apu, one Shahidul Islam and an unidentified person,” Osmani Medical Collage Hospital’s deputy director Dr Debabrata Roy told newsmen negating an earlier report that suggested two police officers were killed in the militant attacks.
Gunshots and explosions were heard as commandos with armoured vehicles entered the building where the suspected militants were believed to be holed in with huge cache of weapons.