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Bangladesh police shoot dead three Islamist extremists near Dhaka

Bangladesh police stormed a militant hideout just outside Dhaka Saturday, shooting dead three Islamist extremists, including the suspected mastermind of an attack on a cafe that killed 22 hostages last month.

 Bangladeshi security forces stand guard as they seal off the streets close to a Spanish resturant, following a hostage taking, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bangladeshi security forces stand guard in Dhaka, Bangladesh Source: EPA/STRINGER

"We can see three dead bodies here," senior police officer Sanwar Hossain told AFP, adding that the dead "most probably" included Bangladeshi-Canadian citizen Tamim Chowdhury.


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