Bangladesh kills 11 members of Islamist group blamed for cafe attack
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DHAKA- Bangladeshi security forces killed 11 members of an Islamist militant group on Saturday, most of them dying in a three-hour gun battle on the outskirts of the capital.
Authorities said the dead were believed be members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), blamed for an attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July in which 22 people were killed, mostly foreigners.
The militants were killed in three separate raids on hideouts on the outskirts of Dhaka, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters.
Seven militants were killed in one raid after police were tipped off that the JMB's Dhaka unit chief and his associates were there.
