Bangladeshi Security Forces Kill Four Dhaka Cafe Attack Suspects

The elite RAB forces conducted two raids near the city of Dhaka

Bangladesh's security force killed four suspected Islamist militants associated with the attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July where they slaughtered 22 hostages, mostly foreigners.

The extremists were taken down on Saturday in two separate raids conducted by the Rapid Action Battalion in Gazipur and Tangail near Dhaka.

Two extremists were shot dead during a gunfight with the RAB in Gazipur. Weapons and explosives have been recovered

Mufti Mahmud Khan, Rapid Action Battalion Spokesperson

Two more suspects were killed after RAB forces raided another building in Tangail, local RAB chief Mohiuddin Faruqe told AFP. Two of their officers were also injured during the raid.

The raid, according to private television broadcaster Jamuna TV, was launched in Gazipur after the RAB received information that the "Dhaka coordinator" of the banned Islamist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was at the hideout. But there has been no confirmation if the leader was among those dead.

Officials rejected the claim that Tamim Chowdhary, a Bangladeshi Canadian citizen who was shot dead at a hideout by the police in Naryaganj city, was leading the JMB.

Since the cafe carnage, Bangladeshi security forces have killed at least 32 suspected Islamist militants, including a US citizen of Bangladesh descent.

Recently, a Bangladeshi court cleared Tahmid Hasib Khan, student of a Canadian university, of all charges after he was arrested and charged for the bloody incident.

(With inputs from PTI.)