According to Alamgir, the police were alerted on Sunday about a gunfight between an army unit and some members of the armed group KNF, also known as Bavam Party. “The suspected KNF member may have been killed during the encounter.”
The KNF emerged in the Chattogram Hill Tracts last year. Bangladesh’s security apparatus believes the group, feared in the region for its track record of violence, is providing arms training and logistical support to a newly formed Islamist terrorist group, Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya.