‘Mastermind’ of Bangladesh cafeteria encircle killed
The Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, where an conflict by Islamic extremsits led to a seige and a genocide of 22 hostages in July, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
DHAKA: An nonconformist indicted of being one of a masterminds of final year’s lethal encircle during a Bangladeshi cafeteria was shot passed during a pre-dawn raid on Friday in Dhaka, military said.
The bodies of Nurul Islam Marzan and another suspected nonconformist were found after officers raided a skill in a capital’s Rayer Bazar neighbourhood, a orator for a Dhaka Metropolitan Police told AFP.
“We found dual bodies. One of them was Marzan and another was a suspected extremist,” additional emissary commissioner Yusuf Ali told AFP.
Ali pronounced that Marzan, who was aged around 30, was “one of a masterminds” of a encircle during a upmarket Holey Artisan Bakery on Jul 1 final year in that 18 unfamiliar hostages were shot or hacked to death.
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Mohibul Islam Khan, a emissary arch of Dhaka police’s opposite terrorism and transnational crime unit, told AFP that Marzan was shot passed during a raid by a anti-terrorism police.
Khan pronounced Marzan was an Arabic tyro during Chittagong University before he forsaken out and assimilated an appendage of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a homegrown nonconformist organization that has been blamed for a cafeteria attack.
“Along with Tamim (Ahmed Chowdhury), Marzan designed a Gulshan attack,” he said, referring to a Canadian citizen of Bangladesh skirmish who military described as a categorical designer of a attack.
Chowdhury was killed in another in another raid outward a collateral in Aug final year.
Police comprehension had found that Marzan organized a cafeteria encircle and was a operational commander, pronounced Khan.
The Islamic State (IS) organization claimed shortcoming for a cafeteria attack, posting images of a destruction as it happened and photos of a gunmen who had acted with a IS’s black flag.
Bangladesh is disorder from a call of attacks on foreigners, rights activists and members of eremite minorities.
While many of those attacks have been claimed by IS or Al Qaeda, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s physical supervision has blamed internal militants, denying that general militants have gained a foothold in Bangladesh.
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The country’s confidence army launched a lethal crackdown opposite extremists following a cafeteria siege, that badly undermined Bangladesh’s repute as a comparatively assuage Muslim nation.
Since a cafeteria attack, confidence army have shot around 50 extremists including many of a purported kingpins of JMB.
Critics contend Hasina’s administration is in rejection about a inlet of a hazard acted by extremists and credit her of perplexing to feat a attacks to demonise her domestic opponents.
Last Sep US Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced during a revisit to Dhaka that there was justification to couple a extremists behind a new spate of lethal attacks in Bangladesh to IS.
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