BREAKING: #ISIS claims 1st attack in #Bangladesh since Mar. 2017, detonating #IED on police in the capital #Dhaka - wounding 3 (in line w media #).
— Rita Katz (@Rita_Katz) April 29, 2019
Comes just days after a week of deadly attacks in #SriLanka indicating growing threat of IS in #SouthAsiahttps://t.co/4UXC1tlKUf pic.twitter.com/yhIW1DPi3b
Two Suspected Islamist Extremists Killed in Bangladesh Raid
[AnNahar] Bangladesh security forces raided a suspected Islamist murderous Moslem hideout in Dhaka on Monday killing at least two bad boys, police said.
Police commandos were met with gunfire on arriving at a house in the capital's Bosila neighbourhood after midnight on Monday, Lieutenant Colonel Ashique Billah told AFP.
This was followed by an kaboom which demolished the walls of the house, the Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB) commander added."Our bomb disposal unit found the body parts of two forces of Evil in the house. The kaboom was so powerful that it tore apart the bodies and shook the whole area," he said.
Four other people were detained including a caretaker and imam from a nearby mosque, the officer added.
Bangladesh launched a crackdown on Islamist extremism after attacks in July 2016, when 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....
-inspired forces of Evil stormed a Dhaka cafe killing 22 people, including 18 foreigners.
Security forces have since staged nationwide raids in which it says nearly 100 members of two murderous Moslem Islamist groups have been killed. Hundreds of suspects have been detained.
The South Asian nation has boosted security since the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, which were carried out by jihadists affiliated to the Islamic State group that killed 253.