Staff Reporter :The international media have given coverage on nine militants killed in predawn security clampdown in capital Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area on Tuesday. At least nine alleged militants were killed and another detained with bullet injuries as security forces overnight raided a terrorist hideout at a multi-storied residential building at Kalyanpur in the capital Dhaka.BBC in its headline writes, ‘Bangladesh police kill nine suspected militants in raid’.Police in Bangladesh have killed nine suspected Islamist militants after a gun battle in Dhaka, officials said. Police were searching the residential area of Kalyanpur when they were attacked by handmade bombs.It was not immediately clear which group the suspected militants killed on Tuesday were part of. One suspect was taken into custody by police.Al Jazeera says, ‘Nine killed in gun battle with police’.Police said nine suspects were killed in a safehouse after a two-hour gun battle in the capital, Dhaka.Nine suspected gunmen were killed by police in an early morning operation in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, according to police.The operation, which the police named Storm 26, lasted an hour. A tenth man who was shot by police survived and was taken to hospital. The Times of India reports, ‘Nine militants killed in police raid in Bangladesh’Bangladeshi police stormed a militant hideout in a Dhaka neighbourhood and killed nine suspected Islamist extremists after a gunbattle on Tuesday morning, officials said.”Nine Islamist militants were killed after two hour-long gunfight,” Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Masud Ahmed said, adding another extremist was shot and arrested during the raid in Kalyanpur neighbourhood.The New York Times in headline writes, “Bangladesh Police Say 9 Militants Killed in Raid in Dhaka.”Police in Bangladesh’s capital raided a five-storey building Tuesday that was used as a den by suspected Islamic militants, killing nine of them, the country’s police chief said.Authorities were investigating to see which group the men belonged to, but evidence showed they likely were from the banned local group Jamatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, said A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque, Bangladesh’s police chief. AFP in its headline reports ‘Bangladesh Police Say 9 Islamic State Militants Killed in Raid in Dhaka’.Bangladeshi police stormed a militant hideout in a Dhaka neighbourhood and killed nine suspected Islamist extremists after a gunbattle Tuesday morning, officials said.JMB is blamed for a July 1 attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic area in which 20 people, including Italians and Japanese, were killed when armed gunmen stormed a restaurant.
