Narayanganj: Police detained owner of the building where three militants, including Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Chowdhury, were killed during a special police operation in a den of ‘New JMB’ at Sadar upazila in Narayanganj.

The detainee is Nuruddin Dewan, owner of the house at Paikpara beside Boro Koborsthan in Sadar upazila.

Mainul Hauqe, superintendent of police, Narayanganj, said police detained 12 people, including Nuruddin Dewan, on Saturday afternoon in connection with the incident.

Later they released 11 of them except Nuruddin.

The SP added police kept Nuruddin in detention on charge of withholding information about the militants from police and a case will be filed against him.

Three militants, including Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Chowdhury, were killed during a special police operation, ‘Hit Strong 27’, in a ‘New JMB’ den in a building of Narayanganj sadar upazila on Saturday morning.