Tag: Dhaka cafe attack

Bangladesh arrests another plotter behind cafe siege

    Bangladesh police Saturday said they have arrested an extremist accused of being one of the "masterminds" of last year´s deadly siege at a Dhaka...

Bangladesh kills four members of Islamist group blamed for cafe attack

Bangladesh's security forces killed four members of a Islamist militant group on Saturday blamed for on attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July...

Militant suspected in Bangladesh cafe attack killed himself: police

A suspected militant believed by Bangladesh police to have been among the planners of a July cafe attack that killed 22 people killed himself...

Bangladesh police kill man they believe trained Dhaka cafe attackers

Bangladesh police on Friday killed the man they believe trained the militants who attacked a Dhaka cafe on July 1 killing 22 people, a...

Bangladesh police kill ‘mastermind’ of Dhaka cafe attack

Bangladesh security forces killed three Islamist militants on Saturday including a Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen alleged to have masterminded an attack on a cafe in...

Bangladesh police say 9 Islamists killed in Dhaka raid

Bangladeshi police killed nine suspected Islamist extremists in a gun-battle Tuesday after storming a hideout where they said a new mass attack was being...

Bangladesh arrests top extremist

Bangladesh’s elite security force said Thursday it had arrested a top regional head of the homegrown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on...

Japanese victims of Dhaka siege arrive home

The bodies of seven Japanese nationals killed in a bloody restaurant attack in Dhaka were returned home early Tuesday on a government plane. The aircraft...

Bangladesh bins Indian media reports alleging Pak’s link to Dhaka attack

Bangladesh has refuted Indian media reports claiming it blamed Pakistan for the recent Dhaka cafe siege which killed at least 20 people. Terming reports by...

Dhaka attackers ‘well-educated,’ found jihad ‘fashionable’

Bangladesh said Sunday the attackers who slaughtered 20 hostages at a restaurant were well-educated followers of a homegrown militant outfit who found extremism “fashionable”,...

Several foreigners hacked to death in Dhaka cafe attack

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina pleads extremists to ‘stop killing in name of religion’ as 20 foreigners were killed and several injured after as many as seven militants stormed an upscale restaurant in capital city