11:00pm- Sources say that the forces of Evil and their family members suspected to be in the hideout are presumed dead.
10:00pm‐ Sounds of gunfire still ongoing, building reportedly on fire.
9:47pm- Five kabooms heard, followed by sounds of gunfire from the bully boy den. Our correspondent Arifur Rahman Rabbi reports from the spot that RAB officials were caught unawares. Smoke is seen billowing from the Komol Prova building.
6:42pm‐ RAB spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan says Abdullah, the identified bully boy inside the Mirpur house informed the security agency that he along with his family and associates will surrender around 7:30pm to 8pm. Earlier, RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed confirmed the media that according to their estimation, a total of seven people, including Abdullah, two of his associates, his two wives and two children are currently holed up in the house.
6:17pm‐ Sources say that house owner Habibullah Bahar Azad is in RAB custody.
3:31pm- RAB Deputy Director Abdullah Al Mehedi tells the Dhaka Tribune: "We are continuously in contact with the bully boys. We are trying to convince them to surrender."
2:55pm- Law enforcers take position on the roads near the hideout.
12:57pm- Gulshan Ara, who stays on the third floor of the building, says: "We heard the sound of a blast around 1:30am. RAB officials evacuated us around 6am.
"I never had any interactions with the people living on the fourth floor."
12:30pm- Abdullah’s sister surrenders, RAB sources say.
12:10pm- Benazir Ahmed says: "A total of 65 people were evacuated from 23 flats of the building."
11:51am- RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed says: "A total of seven people, including bully boy Abdullah, two of his associates, his two wives and two children are hiding in the den.
"When contacted, Abdullah told us that he has over 50 IEDs with him."
He says: "Abdullah disguised himself as an electrician who also sold pigeons on the side."
Earlier in the day, RAB detained two suspected forces of Evil from Elenga area under Kalihati upazila of Tangail district. Based on the information given by the two suspected bully boys, the elite force is conducting the raid in Mirpur’s Komol Prova.
11:26am- RAB evacuates 65 people from the building ‐Komol Prova‐ located on Bordhon Bari Road in Darus Salam.
10:23am- Mufti says: "We were able to contact the forces of Evil inside the den. One of them identified himself as Abdullah.
"He sells pigeons and stays in the house with his family. We are not sure about the number of people inside it."
9:57am-Mufti Mahmud Khan tells the Dhaka Tribune: "We are suspecting that a top JMB bully boy is inside the den."
9:00am- RAB Deputy Director Abdullah Al Mehedi tells the Dhaka Tribune: "We have not yet begun the raid. We are trying to convince them to surrender."
8:30am- RAB evacuates the build and asks people living in the neighbourhood to stay inside their house.
8:00am- RAB urges the suspected forces of Evil to surrender.
7:30am- Mufti Mahmud Khan tells the Dhaka Tribune: "Militants have already hurled bombs targeting us from the fourth floor of the six-storey building."
7:00am- Mufti Mahmud Khan says: "Earlier we detained two forces of Evil from Tangail. They gave us information about this den."
6:30am- RAB front man Mufti Mahmud Khan confirms the matter to the Dhaka Tribune.
1:30am- Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB) cordons off a suspected bully boy hideout in Mirpur’s Darus Salam area in Dhaka.