DHAKA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A court in Bangladesh capital Dhaka has granted eight days of remand for each of two key suspects in the deadly Dhaka cafe terror attack.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yasmin passed the order presented by Bangladesh's special counter-terrorism unit.
Hasnat Karim, a British-Bangladeshi man and a former North South University teacher, and Tahmid Hasib Khan, a Canadian university student, seeked a 10-day remand for each before the court on Thursday, and Yasmin granted police to grill the duo for eight days in custody.
Earlier in the day Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Spokesman Masudur Rahman told journalists that Karim and Hasib were arrested on Wednesday night from capital Dhaka's Bashundhara area.
The whereabouts of the Spanish cafe attack survivors -- Karim and Khan - remained a mystery in the aftermath of Bangladesh's first-ever hostage crisis on July 1 in which 18 foreigners were killed.
The arrests came a day after Bangladesh announced a cash reward of 4 million taka (about 50,632 U.S. dollars) to anyone giving information leading to the arrest of the militant kingpins -- Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and former army officer Syed Md Ziaul Haque.
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