Blasts Kill 3 as Bangladeshi Troops Raid Militant Hide-Out

Blasts Kill 3 as Bangladeshi Troops Raid Militant Hide-Out
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 25, 2017
NEW DELHI — Two civilians and a police officer were killed in explosions in Bangladesh on Saturday as troops raided
a building believed to be a hide-out for militants in the eastern part of the country, the police said.
Twenty-five people were wounded in the explosions, which took place on a road near an Islamic
religious school, said Golam Kibria, a senior police official in the city of Sylhet.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, citing the Islamic State news agency Amaq.
The gunbattle erupted a day after a man detonated his explosives near a police post on a busy road near the airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital.
Since Friday, paramilitary troops have been engaged in an operation to flush out a group
of Islamist radicals holed up in a nearby building with a large cache of ammunition.