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Urgent: 7 killed as Bangladesh police storm militants' hideout

Xinhua, March 30, 2017 Adjust font size:

At least seven suspected militants were killed in Bangladesh Thursday, police said.

Police stormed a house where they said members of the Neo-JMB were holed up, Dhaka's counter-terrorism police unit chief Monirul Islam said.

The Neo-JMB, an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, was blamed for the deadly July 1, 2016 attack on a Spanish cafe. Endit