The Rapid Action Battalion
launched the raid on an abandoned house at Gazipur, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Dhaka, just after midnight, said a front man for the elite police unit.Suspected members of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) hurled bombs towards the raiding party before an kaboom in the building. Two bodies were later recovered.
"We shot up them after a law enforcer was injured as the JMB snuffies hurled an IED (improvised bomb) at our officers when we surrounded the house," said RAB front man Major Rumman Mahmud.
"After we shot several rounds of bullets we heard an kaboom inside the den. Later we found two bodies lying on the floor," he told AFP.
Unwent
kaboom!IEDs, grenades, a pistol, bullets and JMB propaganda leaflets were found at the premises.
It was the third raid on a suspected myrmidon hideout in four days as security forces intensify a hunt for Lions of Islam following a series of deadly attacks on foreigners as well as an attack at a mosque at a naval base.
The raid came hours after three alleged JMB snuffies were locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in the port city of Chittagong. Police found a modern assault rifle, a huge cache of bullets, bomb-making equipment and army uniforms during the operation.
"The worst part of our concern is they have local military fatigues, which makes it harder for the police to monitor their movement," Chittagong Metropolitan Police Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mandal told AFP.
Last Thursday police raided a multi-storey building in Dhaka's Mirpur suburb and arrested seven suspected JMB men after a 15-hour operation. Police said they recovered hand grenades and jacket wallahs' vests.
The high-profile raids and arrests have raised fears Islamist snuffies have regrouped a decade after they carried out a series of bombings.
The nationwide blasts coincided with the launch of a campaign to introduce Sharia law in the Muslim-majority but officially secular nation.
In recent months a string of attacks and murders of foreigners, secular bloggers, publishers, Sufi leaders, Shiites and Ahmadi Muslims were claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group.
The government has denied that IS has a presence in Bangladesh while police blame homegrown myrmidon group JMB for the recent violence.