Four suspected militants were killed during law enforcer agancies’ raids in Gazipur’s Harinam and Tangail’s Kagmara area in the early hours of Saturday.

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) media wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan said two militants were killed during RAB’s raid on a house at Harinal in Gazipur. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

Assistant superintendent of police Mahiul Islam, deputy director of RAB’s Porabari camp, said a team of the elite force cordoned off a one-storey building, owned by Ataur Rahman, in the area early in the  morning following information that it was being used as a militant den.

Two other suspected militants were killed as law enforcers raided an alleged hideout of militants in the village of Kagmara of Tangail municipality area, said the Tangail RAB-12 Commander Mohiuddin Faruque.

Identities of the deceased could not be known yet.

Being tip-off that a gang of militants is staying at the house, a joint team of RAB and police conducted a drive there at about 11:00pm, said the superintendent of Tangail police Mahbub Alam.

Sensing the presence of law enforcers around their house, the militants opened fire at them.

As the law enforcers retaliated, it triggered a gunfight, leaving two militants dead and two others injured.

Earlier in the morning, the Gazipur police Officer-in-charge Rezaul Karim said the members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police conducted an operation in a suspected den in Harinal area of Gazipur.

Meanwhile, a team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit launched another operation at a two-storey building in Patartek area of Gazipur at about 10:00am following information that it was a den of militants.

Local people informed that four militants used to live in the house, said superintendent of Gazipur police Harun-or-Rashid.