The Islamic State group had claimed that attack and several others, but Dhaka insists they were the work of homegrown Islamist groups.
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By AFP | May 7, 2017
A suspected Islamist extremist blew himself up and another was shot dead after Bangladesh's anti-terrorism officers raided their hideout early on Sunday, the police said.
The police cordoned off a one-storey building in a remote village in the western district of Jhenaidah on a tip-off that extremists were holed up there.
"There was an exchange of fire between counter-terrorism police and the extremists. An extremist was killed," district police chief Mizanur Rahman told AFP.
"And when we came closer to the building, another extremist carried out a suicide blast. He died on the spot," he said, adding two police officers were also injured in the blast.
He said the extremists were members of a new faction of the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), blamed for a a wave of deadly attacks against religious minorities and foreigners in the Muslim-majority country.
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