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9 varsity students killed in Bangladesh gun battle
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh witnessed another round of violence when at least nine suspects were gunned down following a two-hour exchange of gunfire with police in a safehouse.
The incident occurred after a police raid on the fourth floor of a rented block of flats in the Kallyanpur area at 5am on Tuesday morning, gunning down nine men who were wearing black clothes and white turbans.
The operation, which the police named Storm 26, lasted an hour. A tenth man who was shot by police survived and was taken to hospital.
“They were university students. We got some of their ID cards from their clothes,” Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masud Ahmed told Al Jazeera.
 

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