Military policeman hacked in Bangladesh capital

A military policeman was hacked at the entrance of the Dhaka Cantonment on Tuesday by an unidentified attacker.

A Dhaka Metropolitan Police official said the injured identified as Lance Corporal Samidul Islam has been rushed to Combined Military Hospital (CMH).

The official, who declined to be named, said locals have nabbed the attacker when he was trying to flee after the machete attack.

But neither the identity of the attacker nor that of the attacked policemen has been officially confirmed by a spokesman of the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) of Bangladesh Army.

The incident came about a week after a cop was killed and six others were injured in two separate attacks.

Constable Mukul Hossain, 23, of Bangladesh's Industrial Police was stabbed to death at Ashulia on the outskirts of capital Dhaka on Wednesday.

In another attack on last Tuesday night in Brahmanbaria district, some 109 km east of Dhaka, five cops were reportedly injured.

Earlier on Oct. 21, a police sub-inspector was stabbed to death by miscreants at a check post in Gabtoli area of Dhaka.

The killing of two foreigners and a secular blogger, who were critical of religious extremism, recently prompted tight security measures in the capital.

Checkpoints have also been set up in Dhaka and other major cities and towns across the country.

It was not known immediately whether the latest attack was linked to those incidents for which a local terror group has been blamed. Endit