Dhaka: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has so far confirmed identities of seven out of the nine militants who were killed during a special drive of the joint forces in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area on Tuesday.

DMP on Wednesday published personal information, including home address, mobile number, and NID numbers, of these seven slain militants on its official news portal.

Fingerprints found in the Kalyanpur militant den matched with the ones used in the National ID cards of these deceased militants, police claimed.

The seven militants are: Abdullah, 23, son of Md Sohrab Ali of Vallabpur village in Dinajpur; Abu Hakim Nayeem, 33, son of Nurul Islam of Kuakata village in Patuakhali; Taj-ul-Haque Rashiq, 25, son of Rabiul Haq of Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area; Atiquzzaman Khan, 24, son of Saifuzzaman Khan of Dhaka’s Gulshan area; Shahzad Rouf Arko, 24, son of Touhid Rouf of Bashundhara in Dhaka; Md Motiar Rahman, 24, son of Nasiruddin Sarder of Omarpur village in Satkhira; and Md Jubayer Hossain, 20, son of Abdul Quaium of Paschim Maijdee village of Noakhali district.

Nine suspected militants were killed in police firing during an operation by a special team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in the city’s Kalyanpur area early Tuesday.

Law enforcers also recovered firearms, detonators, bullets and knives from the there.