Dhaka: On Tuesday, nine suspected gunmen were killed by
police in a gun battle in an early morning operation in Bangladesh’s capital
city of Dhaka, according to police.
Police were searching the
residential area of Kallyanpur when they were attacked by handmade bombs. Police
said they stormed the fourth floor of a rented block of flats in the Kallyanpur
area at 5AM on Tuesday morning, where they killed nine men who were wearing
black clothes and white turbans.
The operation, which the police
named Storm 26, lasted an hour. A tenth man who was shot by police
survived and was taken to hospital.
Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka
Metropolitan Police, Masud Ahmed, said, “They were university students. We got
some of their ID cards from their clothes,” “We are now searching the property,
and a bomb squad is present.”
The incident followed a routine
“block raid” operation in the area conducted by the Dhaka Metropolitan police
which had started after midnight.
The incident followed a routine “block raid” operation in the area
conducted by the Dhaka Metropolitan police which had started after midnight.
The police did not release the names of the suspects or the
universities they attended.
The operation came a month after gunmen stormed a restaurant and
bakery in an upmarket area of the capital and killed 22 people after a hostage
siege, including nine Italians, seven Japanese, an American and an Indian.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group (ISIL) later
claimed responsibility for the attack. Many Bangladeshis were shocked to
discover that three of the five attackers, who were all killed in an army raid
that ended the siege, had attended some of the country’s most prestigious
private schools. The men had gone missing from their homes in the months before
the attack.
On Monday, authorities released a list of 68 names of young people
whose families had reported them missing, suggesting some of them could have
joined armed groups, although nothing can be confirmed.
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