Militants open fire at police in N.W. Bangladeshi district

A team of Bangladeshi police raided a house in the country's Chapainawabganj district on Wednesday morning when at least four militants with huge explosives opened fire at the law enforcers.

The militants also hurled crude bombs at the policemen.

No one was hurt in the incidents of gunfire and blasts, an official of Bangladesh's Counter-Terrorism Police Unit told Xinhua in Dhaka.

The official who did not like to be named said the law enforcers surrounded the village house on Wednesday morning, 302 km northwest of capital Dhaka, suspecting presence of militants there.

He said police, through a loudspeaker, asked the suspected militants to surrender.

Specially-trained law enforcers from Dhaka have already reached the scene to boost local police efforts to flash out the militant den recover the arms and ammunition.

Bangladeshi authorities have already imposed a restriction on movement of vehicles and pedestrians around the terror hideout which are now under siege by the security forces.

No further details were immediately available about the raid which came days after a team of Bangladeshi police busted a terrorist hideout and recovered large quantity of arms and ammunition Chapainawabganj's neighboring Jhenidah district, 178 km west of capital Dhaka.

Security has been tightened in Bangladesh since militants attacked a Spanish cafe in Dhaka's Gulshan on July 1 last year, killing 22 people, mostly foreigners.

Since the cafe attack, Bangladeshi law enforcers apparently have gone tough against Neo-JMB (an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh) which is blamed for the attack. Endit