A suspected militant was killed in a blast during a house raid in Bangladesh's Mymensingh district, some 122 km north of capital Dhaka, on Sunday night, a local police official said.

Senior Mymensingh Police official Noor-e-Alam told journalists that they suspect militants were using the house to make bombs.

"Law enforcers found the alleged militant's body lying in a pool of blood in the tin-roofed house which was kept under cordon since Sunday afternoon," he said.

"We're yet to enter the house, suspecting that there are more bombs in it."

He said a bomb disposal team from capital Dhaka is on its way to Mymensingh.

The militant's wife and son were rescued unhurt from there.

No further details were immediately available, he added.

source: xinhua