Cop hurt in late night raid in city

A policeman was shot late last night after police cordoned off a house in Madhya Pirerbagh area of Mirpur during a raid.

Teams from the Detective Branch of police and Mirpur Police Station conducted the raid around 11:30pm yesterday following a tip-off that armed suspects were holed up there, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia from the spot in the wee hours of today.

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He said the suspects fired at police and fled through the back door of the building.

The commissioner said police were raiding nearby houses and questioning a number of relatives of suspects they had detained. 

Md Selim, duty officer at Mirpur Police Station, told The Daily Star early today that a DB inspector was injured in the incident and admitted to Square Hospitals.