Security forces have cordoned off the house next to a girls' high school at Road No. 5, Mirpur Police Station OC Mahbub Hossain told bdnews24.com around 3am on Tuesday.

He said the militants were shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while firing shots.

“The operation is under way,” he said.

No casualties have been reported.

DMP Additional Deputy Commissioner Jasim Uddin said around 3:20am, “The militants fired on police from a house.”

“The operation to catch the militants is under way,” he added.

Mirpur Police Station Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam said top officials were called after 2am and asked to send forces to the Road No. 5 at Kalyanpur.

Crime Control Room operator Moniruzzaman said police in Mirpur launched an anti-militant drive around 12:30am.

The gunfight has taken place a month within terror attacks in a cafe in Dhaka’s diplomatic district Gulshan.

At least 22 persons, including 17 foreigners and two policemen, died in the attack.

Another attack at Sholakia in Kishoreganj on the Eid day on July 7 left two policemen and a woman dead.