Bangladesh Professor Among Three Arrested Over Flat Rented to Cafe Attackers

Security forces killed six persons in the raid at the cafe to free hostages.

Dhaka – A professor of private university and two others were arrested for allegedly sheltering terrorists who attacked a restaurant in Bangladeshi capital and killed 20 hostages earlier this month, police said.

Dhaka metropolitan police (media wing) deputy commissioner Masudur Rahman confirmed the information.

The two others held are Ahsan’s nephew Alam Chowdhury, and Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin, the building manager.

He added that the owner has been arrested for not heeding police’s instruction about collecting information about tenants while renting out houses or flats.

Six days after the Gulshan cafe attack, militants tried to carry out an assault on the country’s biggest Eid congregation in northern Sholakia killing two policemen.

DHAKA Three elderly Sufi Muslims were attacked in their sleep on Sunday by unidentified machetewielding men at Ektarpur village, some 240 kms from here, and suffered critical injuries.

They quit the apartment right after the Gulshan attack.

“From here they attacked the cafe”. The other associates of the attackers fled the flat after carrying out the attack.

Earlier this year, the DMP issued an order to all apartment owners to provide details of their tenants for a database to help police crack down on criminals and militants using rented accommodation as hideouts. “The authority will provide all cooperation to the law enforcing agency in this investigation”, he said.

Police said they gathered information that at least two NSU students went missing and they suspect that they were recruited by the militant outfits like Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday that investigators had identified the masterminds of the attack and that the remaining perpetrators would soon be arrested. One was the son of a politician.