At least seven suspected militants were killed on Thursday after Bangladeshi police stormed a house where members of the Neo-JMB were holed up, police said.
Bangladesh's Couner-Terrorism Police Unit Chief Monirul Islam declared the "Operation Hit Back" was over.
"Seven to eight bodies were found scattered at the militant den in Moulvibazar's Nasirnagar," he told reporters.
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Police in Bangladesh have arrested another suspect in the killing of a publisher who was hacked to death by militants last October, the head of the counter-terrorism unit in Dhaka said on Sunday.
Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years as the government has cracked down on Islamist groups seeking to turn the South Asian nation ofRead more
The detentions of thousands of suspected criminals across Bangladesh led to the arrest of a suspected member of a banned militant group accused of violently attacking a publisher last year, police said Thursday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the raids are part of an effort to root out militants blamed for a wave of deadly attacks against atheists andRead more