The Rapid Action Battalion concluded its search operation at a Darussalam house in the capital yesterday, three days after a raid that saw seven people, including militant suspect Abdullah, dead.

Lawmen have confirmed the death of seven persons, recovering their severed skulls in the six-storey building on Mirpur’s Mazar Road. The rest of the bodies are believed to have been incinerated and disintegrated in the series of blasts last night that could be seen as a big fire visible from far off.

Heavy sounds of gunshots and explosions are heard from the suspected militant hideout in Dhaka’s Mirpur, over two hours after the law enforcers claimed that the “militants” holed up in den agreed to surrender to the lawmen.