Suspected militant Ashraful Alam Nazim carried the two bombs that exploded near militant den Atia Mahal at Shibbari in Sylhet during army-led "Operation Twilight".
Seven people, including Rab Intelligence Wing chief Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad and two others law enforcers, were killed in the blasts, Police Superintendent (SP) Mohammad Shahjalal of Moulvibazar said at a press conference in the district town on Monday.
Nazim was from Sonaimuri in Noakhali, the SP said, adding that police are collecting information about him.
Relatives of seven people, who died in suicide blasts inside the militant hideout in Nasirpur, refused to take their bodies home for burial, police officials said on Monday.
The seven, including five children, were 'identified from photographs found inside the house. Police said the identities of seven were confirmed by their relatives on Monday. All of them were members of a single family, police said quoting their relatives.
The deceased 'militants' were identified as Lokman Hossain, 45, his wife Shireena Akhter, 35, and five daughters--Amena Khatun, 21, Sumaiya, 21, Marium, 10, Fatema, 7, and Khadiza, 7 months. They hailed from Dangapara village of Ghoraghat upazila in Dinajpur district, said the SP.
"Abu Bakar Siddique, father-in-law of Lokman, identified them based on the family's group photo," the SP said. However, the relatives refused to receive the bodies, the SP added.
Meanwhile, police on Sunday night filed a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act over the raid at Nasirpur den In Moulvibazar. Okil Uddin, officer-in-charge of Moulvibazar Police Station, told The Daily Observer that Sub-inspector Sahabuddin filed the case against some unknown persons,
According to the police, the militants might have blew themselves up to avoid arrest when Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams launched an assault codenamed "Operation Hit Back" on the den at Nasirpur on Wednesday.
Police said they found body parts of seven to eight people after Operation Hit Back launched in a single-storey house on March 30.
In another nearby hideout at Barahaat, three militant suspects blew themselves up while the house was surrounded by a SWAT team. Section 144 is still in force around these militant hideouts. People in these neighbourhoods are mostly staying indoors and coming out of their houses only for urgent work. Some children were seen going to school in the morning. Only few shops remained open on Monday.
Law enforcers on Monday recovered the remaining two bodies of suspected militants who were killed at Atia Mahal in Sylhet's Shibbari in an army operation last week. Four militants were killed at the house in the operation on March 28.
Lieutenant Colonel Ali Haidar Azad, commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-9, told reporters while briefing media near the militant den on Monday evening that "We recovered two male bodies and sent them to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital for autopsy,"
A bomb disposal squad of the elite force led by Lieutenant Colonel Ariful Islam Mahmud started defusing explosives inside the militant hideout. The Rab members began their operation in five-storey building around 12:00 noon, but they did not get any explosive substances inside the hideout, he added.
Sylhet Metropolitan Police, Fire Service and Civil Defence and police from Mogla Bazar Station took part in the on Monday's operation, the Rab official said. The operation will resume today, he added.
