Dhaka: Two suspected female terrorists surrendered on Wednesday after Bangladeshi security forces raided the hideout of a banned Islamist group under siege in the country’s Narsingdi district.
Bangladesh’s Counter-Terrorism Police Unit Chief Monirul Islam said that the operation at the second terrorist hideout in the district was over,.
He said the female terrorists, who are students of a private university in Dhaka, surrendered at about 3 pm.
Security forces surrounded two buildings in separate places in the district on Monday night that they suspected to be terrorist hideouts.
After operation at the first hideout on Tuesday, bodies of two terrorists including that of a woman were found.
“We’re primarily sure all the four terrorists of both the hideouts are members of Neo-JMB,” Islam said.
The Neo-JMB, an offshoot of the banned terrorist outfit JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh), was blamed for the deadly July 1, 2016 attack on a Spanish cafe in Dhaka, which killed 22 people, mostly foreigners.
Since the cafe attack, the Bangladeshi police conducted a series of large-scale operations against terrorists.