during a raid on their hideout in Chittagong.Acting on a tip-off,
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several units of RAB 7 cordoned off a house at Sonapahar village under Mirsarai Upazila ‐ suspecting it to be a hard boy hideout ‐ around 3:30am on Friday.
The hard boyz hiding inside the house fired at RAB, triggering a shootout, RAB officials said.
The exchange of fire continued for about half an hour. At one stage, the hard boyz went
kaboom!two bombs when RAB members asked them to surrender.
The two hard boyz killed in the suicide blast are yet to be identified.
The magnitude of the blast partially destroyed the roof, damaged the walls, and ripped off the windows of the house, RAB 7 Deputy Commanding Officer Safayat Jamil Fahim told the Dhaka Tribune.
"We interrogated the owner and caretaker of the house. They told us that there was also a female hard boy. They had been living in the house since September 29," he added.
The female hard boy somehow managed to escape, he further said.
RAB’s bomb disposal squad destroyed two IEDs, and recovered: three hand grenades, ammunition, three pistols, and an SMG.
An AK 22 rifle and raw materials for explosives were also recovered from the hard boy hideout.
RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan said that the hard boyz were planning to carry out a large-scale attack on the Chittagong court.
The severely disfigured bodies of the two hard boyz have been sent to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.