Bangladesh army commandos shot dead two suspected Islamist extremists at a hideout in the north-east Sunday, a day after six people died in explosions claimed by the Islamic State group.
"Our commandos could effectively engage two of them. We can confirm the two were killed," Brigadier General Fakhrul Ahsan told reporters in the city of Sylhet.
Ahsan said the commandos, armed with rocket launchers as well as rifles, located the men wearing suicide vests on the ground floor of a five-storey building and shot them dead.
"The suicide vest of one of them (who died) also exploded," he said.
Ahsan said the operation was continuing because one or more of the extremists - who were well armed and equipped - were still holed up in the building where they had laid improvised explosive devices.