Renzi spoke Sunday to Sky TG24 TV, referring to the weekend attack in a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that killed 22 people, including nine Italians.
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“Because of the effort of the joint force, the terrorists could not flee, ” Hasina said, vowing to fight Islamist insurgency in the country.
The attackers tortured and killed some of the hostages, most of whom were foreigners.
Deputy inspector general of police, Shahidur Rahman, told authorities were investigating any connection between the attackers and trans-national groups such as Islamic State (IS) or al Qaeda but did not elaborate.
Nine of the dead hostages were Italian, seven were Japanese and one was Indian, according to those countries.
The hostage crisis, the first such incident in Bangladesh, began around 8.30 p.m. on Friday after the attackers carrying firearms, bombs and swords barged into the cafe.
Abinta Kabir, from Miami, was an undergraduate at Emory’s Oxford College, and Faraaz Hossain, who was from Dhaka, was an undergraduate student at the university’s Goizueta Business School, Emory said.
U.S. Department of State spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that no injuries were reported among embassy personnel and expressed support for the people of Bangladesh.
Three Bangladeshi policemen look into the back garden of an upscale cafe in Dhaka on July 03, 2016 a day after a bloody siege ended with the death of 20 foreign hostages. “They are from rich families, they have good educational background”, Bangladesh’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said.
Emory University said Saturday that two of its students were among those killed when a group of armed extremists stormed a restaurant in Bangladesh earlier this week. “They don’t have any religion”, she said in a televised speech. “They do not have any religion, their only religion is terrorism”.
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The assault, along with recent attacks in other countries, including the shooting in Orlando, are viewed by Western intelligence officials as bloody examples that as ISIS loses territory in Iraq and Syria, it has increasingly turned to directing and inspiring terrorist missions elsewhere. “My government is determined to root out terrorism and militancy from Bangladesh”.
