BANGLADESH: Fighters blow themselves up with grenade

As many as eight fighters blew themselves up with a grenade in Bangladesh rather than surrender, police said on Thursday, the latest clash in the South Asian country that has seen a rise in violence.
Police urged the group, holed up in their hideout in Nasirpur, northeast of the capital Dhaka, to give themselves up on Wednesday, but instead they detonated the explosive.
Police officers came under attack during the operation with at least eight grenades tossed at them as they cordoned off two houses, both owned by a Bangladesh-origin British citizen.
Counter-terrorism officers and the elite SWAT unit then stormed one of the hideouts and found body parts scattered across two rooms.
“Up to eight militants, including a female, were killed,” Monirul Islam, the chief of police counter-terrorism and transnational crime, told reporters.
He added there could also be children among the dead.
“There was an explosion late yesterday afternoon when the operation began. They died due to that explosion,” Islam said.