Blasts Kill 3 as Bangladeshi Troops Raid Militant Hide-Out<br />By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 25, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — Two civilians and a police officer were killed in explosions in Bangladesh on Saturday as troops raided<br />a building believed to be a hide-out for militants in the eastern part of the country, the police said.<br />Twenty-five people were wounded in the explosions, which took place on a road near an Islamic<br />religious school, said Golam Kibria, a senior police official in the city of Sylhet.<br />The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, citing the Islamic State news agency Amaq.<br />The gunbattle erupted a day after a man detonated his explosives near a police post on a busy road near the airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital.<br />Since Friday, paramilitary troops have been engaged in an operation to flush out a group<br />of Islamist radicals holed up in a nearby building with a large cache of ammunition.
