Bangladesh busts second hideout of Spanish cafe attackers in capital

Bangladeshi law enforcers Sunday seized a large quantity of explosives from a suspected militant hideout believed to be used by the Spanish cafe attackers in the capital.

"We've come to know that the perpetrators of the July 1 terror attack had used the house," a Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) official told Xinhua.

The official who did not like to be named said Nurul Islam, house owner, has been arrested for not heeding police's instruction about collecting information about tenants while renting out houses or flats.

He said no one was in the house during the raid on Sunday morning.

According to the official, Police have found handmade grenade, black dresses and some other equipment from in the house.

Hours before the raid in Dhaka's downtown Mirpur area, police had arrested the acting Pro-Vice Chancellor of the country's top private North South University Professor M Gias Uddin Ahsan and two others for renting his flat to militants without verification.

Several months before the July 1 Spanish cafe attack in Dhaka's Gulshan diplomatic area, cohorts of the attackers reportedly rented Ahsan's flat in Dhaka's posh Bashundhara area near diplomatic enclave Baridhara.

DMP have long been urging house owners in Dhaka not to rent out their houses to any strangers and requested every house owner to provide all necessary information about their tenants to the nearby police station.

Gulshan attackers' other fellows who also lived in the flat have fled from it after the terror attack in Spanish restaurant in which 22 people including 18 foreigners and two police officers were killed, said a police official. Endit