2 suspected militants killed in shoot-out in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Aug. 29 (NsNewsWire) — Two suspected militants of the banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been killed in a shoot-out in Bangladesh’s Bogra district, some 170 km northwest of capital Dhaka, said a local police official on Monday, reports Xinhua.
The official said Khaled Mama, JMB’s regional military commander and his associate Ripon died during a raid early Monday.
Acting on a tip-off, the official who did not like to be named, said the law enforcers raided a Bogra village area at around 3:30 a.m. local time Monday.
Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, he said JMB men opened fire on them prompting the law enforcers to retaliate, triggering a gunfight.
“Mama and Ripon were caught in the line of fire and died on the spot while their other associates managed to flee the scene.”
On Saturday, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-Canadian suspected of heading JMB accused of plotting last month’s deadly cafe attack that killed 22 people including 18 foreigners, was among those killed in a police raid in Narayanganj on the outskirts of capital Dhaka.
JMB, campaigning for establishment of Islamic rule in Bangladesh, carried out a series of bomb attacks in the country’s 63 districts including capital Dhaka on Aug. 17, 2005, leaving two people dead and 150 others injured.
Hundreds of JMB leaders and activists were rounded up while six top leaders of the group, including Shaikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged in 2007.  Enditem