Professor arrested for renting flat to attackers

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a professor from an elite university alleging that he had rented a flat to gunmen who attacked a cafe in Dhaka earlier this month and killed 20 hostages.

In the first arrests police have made outside the cafe, Gias Uddin Ahsan of the private North South University was detained late Saturday along with two other people and is expected to appear in a court in the capital to face charges Sunday.

Police allege that in May he rented a flat he owns without registering the tenants’ information as required by law - to some of the gunmen responsible for the attack claimed by the Islamic State group.