26 December 2016

News Story: Two militants killed in suicide blasts in Bangladesh raid

DHAKA, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Two suspected militants, a female and boy, were killed in separate suicide blasts during a raid on a hideout of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh(JMB) in capital Dhaka on Saturday.

After the raid on the militant hideout had ended on Saturday evening, Bangladeshi Home Minister Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told journalists at the scene that "the woman and the teenage boy have blown themselves up on Saturday afternoon despite repeated requests to surrender."

He said a minor girl has also suffered splinter injuries when the woman killed herself.

Read the full story at Xinhua