Woman and a teenager blow themselves up during raid on suspected militant hideout

A woman and a teenager believed to be linked to a banned Islamist militant group blew themselves up during a police raid on a two-storey house in Bangladesh's capital.

The woman died after detonating explosives attached to her body during the raid, while the teenage boy's body was found inside an apartment on the ground floor of the building in Dhaka's Ashkona area.