DHAKA, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- A suspected militant was killed in a suicide blast during a raid on a hotel in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Tuesday, the country's police chief told journalists.
After the raid on the militant hideout ended on Tuesday, AKM Shahidul Hoque, inspector general of Bangladesh Police, told journalists at the scene that "militant Saiful has blown himself up on Tuesday morning during the raid despite repeated requests to surrender."
The law enforcement agencies on early Tuesday cordoned off the Hotel Olio International.
A portion of the hotel's fourth storey reportedly collapsed and fell onto the road after the explosion.
The hotel is located less than one kilometer away from the memorial museum of Bangladesh's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was assassinated on Aug. 15, 1975 along with 13 members of his family.
On Tuesday morning Bangladeshi President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday led the nation in paying homage by placing wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu installed in front of the memorial museum in Western Dhaka's posh Dhanmondi area.
