The latest such incident amid an intensified nationwide crackdown on Islamist militants, police said on Friday.
\"The AU troops pulled out of the town and Shebab militants entered and have secured control without fighting,\" Ibrahim Adam, governor of the Lower Shabelle region told reporters. (Photo: AP)
Four militants blew themselves up in Bangladesh after a 24-hour standoff with the security forces which raided their ‘den’, the latest such incident amid an intensified nationwide crackdown on Islamist militants, police said on Friday.
An injured pregnant woman, who is the wife of one of the slain militants, and her six-year-old daughter were brought out from the house as siege ended at the den of Neo Jamaat- ul-Mujahideen, a spokesman said. Last month Bangladesh police conducted series of large-scale operations against militants, in which at least 17 suspected militants were killed.
( Source : PTI )
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