U.S. man among 9 slain in Dhaka raid

NEW DELHI — A 24-yearold Bangladeshi-American student was among nine suspected militants killed in a gunbattle with police in Bangladesh, Dhaka police said Wednesday.

In a Facebook post, police identified seven of the nine killed early Tuesday during a raid in a residential neighborhood in Dhaka, the capital. Those identified were six Bangladeshis and American Shazad Rouf, 24, a master’s student in business administration at North South University in Dhaka.

Rouf was born in Bangladesh but spent time in Illinois and California as a youth, his father confirmed.

Police said the suspects — a 10th escaped — are part of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh group. A Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen faction is working with the Islamic State extremist group, according to Monirul Islam, chief of the country’s counterterrorism unit.

Authorities said Rouf and the others apparently had been living together in an apartment crammed with knives and small arms and draped in black Islamic State flags.