DHAKA, July 26 (Xinhua)-- Nine suspected militants were killed as Bangladesh law enforcers on Tuesday conducted a raid on a hideout of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in capital Dhaka, said the country's police chief.
A K M Shahidul Hoque, inspector general of Bangladesh Police, told Xinhua that Nine JMB militants were killed during the special operation of the joint forces.
He said the operation "Storm 26" of the joint forces also arrested one suspected militant alive with explosives and grenades.
Operatives of the banned militant outfit plotted to carry out an attack similar to that in a Spanish cafe in Dhaka's Gulshan to boast about their existence, he added.
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