Bangladesh police find ‘up to’ eight bodies in militant den

Police suspect they 'committed suicide'.


Bangladesh security forces found the scattered body parts of up to eight people when they entered an Islamist hideout on Thursday after a two-day stand-off with armed fighters, police said.

“We think there were seven to eight bodies of different ages,” the head of the counter-terrorism unit Monirul Islam told reporters, saying police suspect they “committed suicide”.

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