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Police urged the militants in Nasirpur, northeast of the capital Dhaka, to give themselves up on Wednesday, but instead they detonated the grenade.
“Up to eight militants, including a female, were killed,” Monirul Islam, the chief of police for counter-terrorism and transnational crime, told reporters.
An armed militant group fighting Myanmar’s government on behalf of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority has issued a statement asserting its right to self defence and denying links to any terrorist groups.
The statement, dated March 29 but released on Tuesday through overseas sympathisers, is the first public announcement issued in the name of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, which previously called itself the Faith Movement, or Harakah al-Yaqin. Analysts including the Brussels-based International Crisis Group say it has been carrying out armed resistance.
Afghan forces have spent months trying to keep the Taliban at bay.
The Taliban have captured the crucial southern Afghan city of Sangin after a year-long battle, officials say.
Eight maoists and two policemen were killed in a raging encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Saturday, police said.
Two security personnel were also injured in the gun battle going on in the forest of Barrempara village under Aranpur police station area of the state’s Maoist-affected Bastar region.
The Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services reported that 48 clashes between the government army and insurgent Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) so far had claimed lives of some officers and other ranks.
According to a press release, a 300-strong group of the MNDAA spread out and simultaneously attacked the military and police outposts in Yanlonkyaing, Kokang Traffic Police office in Laukkai, the house of U Wai Hsan, who is member of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone’s leading body.