Bangladesh blasts mastermind surrenders

Dhaka, Mar 2 (UNI) Prime accused in last year's serial blasts in Bangladesh, Shaikh Abdur Rahman surrendered early today alongwith two others after being holed up in his hideout for almost 36 hours in the country's northeastern Sylhet town, police said.

The Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) supremo was the mastermind of the orchestrated blasts that rocked the country's 63 districts on August 17 last year.

Elite forces of Rapid Action Battalion and police had kept the house, where Rahman was hiding, cordoned off since Tuesday night and were pressing him to surrender.

Rahman finally surendered this morning and emerged from a house in Sylhet at about 0720 hrs local time, police said.

Last afternoon, Shaikh's wife, daughter and children who were staying in the house came out and surrendered to the police.

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