But now suddenly they created this type of situation.
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“They are very good students”.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. was in contact with the Bangladesh government and had offered its assistance to bring those responsible to justice.
Bangladeshi army personnel stand guard during a rescue operation after an attack at a Spanish restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic enclave Gulshan, Bangladesh, July 2, 2016.
Khan said the militants, who attacked the upscale cafe Holey Artisan and took the visitors hostage on Friday, were Bangladeshi nationals.
The attack was the deadliest and boldest act of terror in a country that has become increasingly numb to ever-escalating violence by Islamist militants. “Some went to the roof, others went to other safe spots”.
The report said police, too, released photos of the attackers – six of them were killed and one taken alive after a 12-hour siege at the popular restaurant. “That’s why they came here to do higher study”, said Jahangir Hossain, President of the Bangladesh Association of Georgia.
But about 35 were trapped inside, their fate depending on whether they could prove themselves to be Muslims, according to the father of a Bangladeshi businessman who was rescued Saturday morning along with his family.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his grief over the attack saying: “I feel profound anger that so many innocent people have lost their lives in the cruel and nefarious terrorism”.
Addressing the nation for the second time in one day, she called Islam “a religion of peace, ” and said that terrorists “are maligning its name”.
The university said in a statement that since early June she had been in Dhaka on an internship at Eastern Bank Limited working on e-commerce growth. And the last, while being a USA citizen, claimed Dhaka as home.
A law enforcement source told the Dhaka Tribune that “all of them (attackers) were Bangladeshi nationals aged between 20 and 28”. IS has previously claimed attacks carried out by so-called lone wolf attackers with no known connection to the group.
Japan has sent Vice Foreign Minister Seiji Kihara, along with a team of terrorism experts, to Dhaka.
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The victims included Italian nationals, seven Japanese citizens, an American, as well as three Bangladeshis or people of Bangladeshi descent.
