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A fierce gun battle has broken out inside the headquarters of Bangladesh's border security force in the capital Dhaka, police say.
"There has been a huge exchange of gunfire at BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) headquarters complex this morning. We have heard mortar fire," Nabojit Khisa, a local police chief, said on Wednesday.
"The gunfire is still going on. We are not allowed to enter," he added, declining to comment on speculation that the cause of the fighting was a mutiny within the force.
The Bangladesh Rifles are headquartered in the Bangladeshi capital's Pilkhana area.
Nicholas Haque, reporting for Al Jazeera from Dhaka, said there had been heavy fighting since the morning.
"The fighting broke out, apparently, this morning during a meeting between junior and senior officers. There is panic on the streets right now. No-one is clear about what's happening," he said.
"They [a suspected paramilitary group] are shooting into civilian crowds around them.... it's a very terrible reminder of what happened years ago when there was a coup.
"Fighting continues in the compound. There is no security, no police, there is no-one outside the compound... there are just civilians... apart from the army pointing their guns towards civilians."
Bangladesh has had a history of military coups and uprisings.
Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's first elected president and the father of Sheikh Hasina, the country's current prime minister, was killed along with several of his family members in 1975.
The country, which secured its independence from Pakistan in 1971, has also experienced long stretches of military rule.
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Bangladeshi policemen stand guard in Dhaka in June 2008.
Al-Jazeera
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