October 8, 2016 6:17 PM

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Bangladesh: Security forces killed 11 members of Islamist militant group

Bangladeshi security forces killed 11 members of an Islamist militant group today blaming them for an attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July in which 22 people, mostly foreigners were killed. <br/><br/>Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters that the militants, believed to be members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, JMB were killed in three raids on militant hideouts on the outskirts of the Capital. Seven militants were killed in a raid on one hideout after police were tipped off that the JMB's Dhaka unit chief and his associates were there.<br/><br/>Police have killed more than three dozen suspected militants in shootouts since the Dhaka cafe attack, including its presumed mastermind, Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury.

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