DHAKA, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Bangladesh's anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) early on Tuesday cordoned off a building in capital Dhaka, where militants were suspected of being holed up.
According to a Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) officer who did not like to be named, law enforcers had surrounded the six-storey house in Dhaka's Mirpur area since early Tuesday.
He said at least three bombs were hurled towards RAB personnel from the suspected militant hideout at about 1:00 a.m. local time after it was encircled.
Frequent sounds of gunfire were also heard from the spot, the DMP official added.
None have reportedly been injured in the grenade attack at the security personnel.
The raid in the militant hideout is still underway.
No further details were immediately available.
The raid came following information given by some suspects detained in a raid on a house in the country's central Tangail district, some 97 km away from Dhaka, earlier in the night.
At least two militant suspects were reportedly arrested following the Tangail raid on the house where there might be huge explosives inside the hideout.
A bomb disposal unit from Dhaka will visit the suspected Tangail militant hideout on Tuesday.
Security has been tightened in Bangladesh after militants attacked a Spanish cafe in Dhaka's Gulshan on July 1, 2016, which left 22 people, mostly foreigners, dead.
