Dhaka: Armed gunmen have stormed a popular café in Dhaka,
Bangladesh and took the guests into hostage, among whom there were multiple
foreigners on Friday night. The Bangladeshi café, Holey Artisan Bakery café, is
assumed to be attacked eight or nine in numbers armed terrorists.
Islamic state (IS) has claimed that they carried away the
attack in the café.
Two police
officers were killed during the attack while dozens of hostages were wounded in
the rescue operation. The operation also had killed six gunmen and one of them
was held alive by the police. Following the operation, Bangladesh army
spokesman Colonel Rashidul Hasan said: “The operation is over and the situation
is under control.”
Bangladesh Prime
Minister Seikh Hasina noted to a TV channel that the operation is over and the
police have saved as many as 13 hostages but many succumbed to death. The
numbers of death is not yet known.
With numbers of
Italian and Japanese nationalities in the café during the attack, the
ambassadors said that they will start investigation against the attack.
The attack in
the Dhaka café is connected with the recent spate of violence in the Muslim
majority country by Islamic State and other terrorist group. The attacks in
most cases were made by machete-wielding men, following similar pattern of
killing the religious minority members, free thinkers, bloggers, gays and
bisexuals.
Reports are that
the last 18-months of continuous terrorist attacks in Bangladesh, as stated by
the national security officials, two local militant groups, Ansar-al-Islam and
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, have been behind violence.
Eminent
Bangladeshi author and feminist, Taslima Nasreen, who is in exile in india
since 1994, took to twitter to express her concern: “While ISIS claimed
responsibility for the Dhaka attack, the PM was still sticking to her stand of
no presence of the terrorist group in the country.”
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