Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday vowed to trace the “roots” of the culprits who supplied weapons and explosives to the terrorists who killed 20 people, mostly foreigners, in a barbaric attack on a café in Dhaka.
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Seven Japanese were killed after militants stormed a restaurant in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, Japan’s government confirmed late Saturday.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says the plane will also carry staff from the Foreign Ministry, the Japanese development agency and the companies the victims worked for.
Thirteen civilians were rescued during the operation. She was visiting family and friends in Bangladesh when she was taken hostage and killed in the Dhaka attack.
Six of the seven militants involved in the attack were killed by forces while a seventh was captured alive.
A huge contingent of security guards cordoned off the area around the restaurant, trading gunfire with the attackers who set off bombs and exchanged gunfire with the security forces.
Government officials have used.
Struggling to speak, 30-year-old officer Pradip, who gave just one name, recalled rushing to the spot after receiving a wireless message that night.
Police were blocking all access to streets near the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan, where heavily armed attackers holed up overnight Friday, torturing and killing some of their captives including nine Italians, seven Japanese, three Bangladeshis and one Indian teenager.
The government did not directly comment on the IS claim of responsibility but has denied in the past that the extremist group based in Syria and Iraq has a presence in Bangladesh, instead blaming the recent attacks on its political enemies.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dispatched a task force to Bangladesh to assist in the investigation.
Police Inspector General Shahidul Hoque told CNN that police had tried to arrest these five militants previously.
“We’ll establish Bangladesh as a peaceful stateÂ… We are trying to talk to the attackers, we want to listen to them about what they want”.
“We thought it wasn’t safe anymore and jumped from the roof”, he said.
The statement, whose authenticity dpa could not verify, said that five Islamic State fighters had attacked “a gathering of subjects of the crusader states in the city of Dakka in Bangladesh”. She passed out from American School Dhaka.
“They are from rich families, they have good educational background”, Khan said of the attackers. Victims have included atheist bloggers, gay rights activists, foreign aid workers and religious minorities.
For the record, at least 20 people, most of whom were foreigners, were killed in the attacks.
Over the previous year, Islamic State and its rival, al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, claim to have carried out more than two dozen targeted killings in Bangladesh, mostly of foreigners, secular writers and religious minorities. IS and and al-Qaida affiliates have claimed responsibility for many of those attacks.
The UNSC, in its statement, underlined the need for bringing perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice and urged all states to cooperate actively with all relevant authorities in this regard.
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Hossain and Kabir were among at least 28 people dead in an attack that began Friday.
