There were fears the BBC news website had been hacked after a story was posted in Bengali script.

The article, about a police raid on militants in Dhaka, shot to the top of the list of most read on the site on Friday.

It was also tweeted by BBC Breaking, which has around 24 million followers.

A spokesman for the BBC said it had been sent by mistake by a World Service reporter and was taken down minutes later.

"It was just an error, somebody tweeted from the wrong account," he added.

"It was literally a human error and it has been corrected."

The BBC later tweeted: "Apologies to those who received an alert from @BBCBreaking. We haven't been hacked."

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