Alwaght- Bangladesh Police have shot down a suicide bomber when he tried to cross a checkpoint run by an elite anti-crime force in the country's capital on Saturday, officials said.
Associated Press cited the Rapid Action Battalion as saying the security officers opened fire as the man tried to penetrate the checkpoint with "a motorbike and explosives" in Dhaka's Khilgaon area.
The agency's operational official A.S.M. Sakhawat Hossain told reporters that officers found the explosives in a bag the man was carrying.
The man's identity was not immediately clear.
Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the agency, said two officials were injured but it was not clear how.
On Friday, a suspected militant died when he exploded a bomb at the camp where the agency's future headquarters is under construction.
Local media quoting the BBC Bangla service said ISIS terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the rare attack on Bangladesh's security services.
Bangladesh has experienced a surge in militant attacks in recent years when atheist bloggers, writers and publishers, and foreigners and members of minority communities were targets.
In July, 20 hostages, including 17 foreigners, were killed by a group of five militants in a restaurant in Dhaka. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina rejected that, saying the men belonged to domestic group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh.
