DHAKA, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Eight suspected militants surrendered following a raid on a hideout of a banned Islamist outfit in Bangladesh's western Rajshahi region early Monday.
The members of Neo-JMB surrendered after police cordoned off the house in Tanore sub-district of Rajshahi, some 256 km west of Dhaka, suspecting it a militant den, Asaduzzaman, a senior police officer in Rajshahi, told reporters.
He said the detainees were all members of the same family.
According to the official, two suicide vests, a pistol, six rounds of bullets and a magazine had been recovered from the house.
All the detainees are reportedly suspected members of Neo-JMB, an offshoot of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
The group was blamed for a deadly attack on July 1, 2016 at a Spanish cafe in Dhaka, which killed 22 people, mostly foreigners.
Bangladeshi police so far conducted series of large-scale operations against Neo-JMB militants, in which dozens of militants were killed.
JMB carried out a series of bombings in 63 out of the country's 64 districts, including the capital of Dhaka on Aug. 17, 2005, leaving two people dead and 150 others injured.
Hundreds of JMB leaders and activists were rounded up while six top leaders of the group, including Shaikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged in 2007.
