ISIL terrorist group claimed on Saturday a suicide bomb attack a day earlier on a camp for Bangladesh’s elite security forces.
“A caliphate soldier in Bangladesh carried out a martyrdom operation with an explosive belt in a camp for special forces in Dhaka,” the group announced in its daily al-Bayan radio bulletin.
Two people were wounded in the apparently botched attack, one of the first in recent years against the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) force which is tasked with tackling militancy.
The incident came a day after a series of raids on suspected militant hideouts in the troubled country.
Bangladesh has seen a spate of deadly attacks recently on foreigners, writers and activists.
The country’s security forces launched a nationwide crackdown on extremists following a siege at a cafe in Dhaka last year, arresting scores of suspects.
The ISIL group also claimed responsibility for that attack, in which 22 people, including 18 foreign hostages, were killed.
The government has denied the presence of ISIL in the country and blames local extremists.
On Saturday, police shot dead a suspected militant in Dhaka.
The man was killed as he tried to cross a security roadblock on a motorbike carrying a bag with improvised explosive devices, according to RAB spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan.
Source: AFP
