Dhaka: Bangladesh Army fired at suspected insurgents in the country’s restive Chittagong Hill Tracts in the southeast, leaving at least five people dead on Saturday, police said.

Police said the gunfight occurred in a remote place called Boradom in Rangamati where army troops raided a den of suspected members of Jana Sanghati Samiti (MN Larma).

‘There was an exchange of fires between the army troops and suspected members JSS MN Larma in the morning. Five members of the group were killed,’ local police chief Zakir Hossain, reported AFP.

A member of the army was injured in the operation. He was taken to Combined Military Hospital in Chittagong.

In their raid on the camp at about 5:15am in Rupkari union, a remote, hilly area in the district, the law enforcers also detained three suspected rebels and found firearms, ammunition.

Among the weapons and other items recovered were one pistol, one SMG, two rifles, and three SLR, and 500 bullets, and uniforms, Major Rubaiat Jamil said.

The JSS MN Larma is an offshoot of a former rebel group which fought a decades-long battle for a tribal homeland in the Chittagong Hill Tracts before signing a peace deal with the government in 1997.