Nine killed in police raid in Kalyanpur

At least nine alleged extremists were killed in a ‘gunfight’ between police and extremists in the capital’s Kalyanpur on early Tuesday, police said.

A huge contingent of security forces had cordoned off the multi-storey residential building following gunfight between police and extremists.

Police said they had arrested a member of the Islamist extremist group wounded and admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Police believed it was a den of an Islamist group and many were still hiding inside the building.

‘We have overpowered and destroyed them,’ additional police commissioner of Dhaka, Sheikh Maruf Hasan, told New Age.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net