A seventh attacker was arrested.
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According to CNN, senior United States officials believe that the attack has been probably carried out by Al Qaeda in Indian Sub-continent, which was declared as a terrorist organisation by the USA only a day before the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery Cafe at Dhaka, which was located in the diplomatic quarters of the capital. Many of those killed were hacked to death.
The officer in charge of Bangladeshi commandos, Lt. Col. Tuhin Mohammad Masud, said the rescued hostages included an injured Japanese citizen and two Sri Lankans. No one out and about.
Hostages were tortured and killed if they couldn’t recite the KoranTen of 26 people who were wounded when the militants opened fire are in critical condition, and six are on life support.
“We don’t want these terrorists in Bangladesh”, the Prime Minister said.
The hostage standoff at a Gulshan café brought shockingly grim news for the country and beyond: nine Italians, seven Japanese, two Bangladeshis, one Bangladeshi-American and one Indian are dead. Early Saturday, the group posted photographs of what it said were the bodies of foreigners who had been killed.
Rising Oxford College sophomore Abinta Kabir (left) and rising Goizueta Business School junior Faraaz Hossain (right) were taken hostage and killed in the Dhaka, Bangladesh, attack.
“The Emory community mourns this tragic and senseless loss”, the university said in a statement.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said nine Italians were also killed while another was unaccounted for following the siege.
The girl, Tarushi Jain, a student at UC Berkeley, was on vacation in Dhaka. Sanchita Saxena, executive director of Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies, called Jain “a smart and ambitious young woman with a big heart”.
The so-called Islamic State militant group has claimed the attack, saying it was targeting the citizens of “crusader countries”.
The siege at the restaurant and other attacks have raised fears that the once-moderate country is in the grip of a wave of violence coordinated by worldwide terrorist groups, though the government has insisted that the attacks are committed by local groups.
He added that Friday’s dramatic attack are stoking concerns that “this is just a sign of things to come”.
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The government has consistently ruled out the presence of the dreaded terror group in the Muslim-majority nation though experts have been maintaining that series of brutal attacks on minorities and secular activists had the hallmarks of ISIS group.
