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Internal conflict in Bangladesh | ||||||
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![]() The bomb blasts carried out by Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh on 17 August 2005. | ||||||
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Belligerents | ||||||
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Units involved | ||||||
Rapid Action Battalion | Unknown | Unknown | ||||
Casualties and losses | ||||||
1,500+ deaths [1] [2] [3] |
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The 2017 South Surma Upazila bombings was a combined police and army raid of a suspected militant hideout in South Surma Upazila, Sylhet, Bangladesh on 25 March 2017. During the raid, the militants targeted the Bangladesh Armed Forces who were surrounding the militant occupied compound in Sylhet. There were two suicide bombings which killed four civilians and two police officers and wounded more than 40, some critically. An army lieutenant colonel later died from his injuries. Bombs exploded and gunfire was reported when the military launched Operation Twilight to clear the militant hideout. ISIL claimed responsibility however, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal denied the claims of ISIL and blamed the local Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh for the attacks. Finally the Bangladesh Army neutralised four militants at the suspected hideout.
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See chart "Number of deaths" from 1999