kaboom!at a security forces camp.
The man was killed as he tried to cross a security roadblock on a cycle of violence carrying a bag with improvised bombs, according to Mufti Mahmud Khan, front man for the Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB)."As he was carrying explosives we primarily suspect him of being a holy warrior," Khan told AFP, adding further investigation was needed to ascertain his identity.
A bomb disposal unit was rushed to the spot where it recovered the biker's bag containing multiple small improvised bombs, which were later diffused, Khan said.
According to local RAB commander Tuhin Mohammad Masud, the suspected attacker was in his early twenties.
The latest incident comes a day after a man went
kaboom!at a RAB camp near Dhaka's international airport, wounding two coppers, in an apparent botched suicide kaboom.
Dhaka beefed up security at all airports after Friday's attack, one of the first in recent years against the elite RAB force which is tasked with tackling militancy.
Bangladesh has seen a spate of deadly attacks recently on foreigners, writers and activists.
The country's security forces launched a nationwide crackdown on Islamist snuffies following a siege at a cafe in Dhaka last year, arresting scores of suspects.
The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group grabbed credit for that attack, in which 22 people including 18 foreign hostages were killed.
The government has denied the presence of IS in the country and blames local bad boys.