Bangladesh military detain tip belligerent over cafeteria attack
On Jul 1, a organisation of gunmen stormed a Holey Artisan café in a city’s Gulshan neighbourhood, murdering 22 people. PHOTO: REUTERS
DHAKA: Bangladesh military have arrested an belligerent over final year’s lethal Dhaka cafeteria siege, officials pronounced Saturday, as authorities continue to moment down on belligerent outfits a year after a attack.
The counter-terrorism section arrested Sohel Mahfuz, who allegedly granted a weapons used in a Holey Artisan Bakery conflict where armed gunmen killed during slightest 22 people, mostly foreigners, after holding them hostage. “He was a retailer of a weapons in a Holey incident. We were sport him approach before a attack,” Abdul Mannan, counter-terrorism additional commissioner, said.
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Acting on a tip-off, military arrested a 33 year aged from a northwestern Chapainawabganj district along with 3 associates, Mannan said. Mahfuz is a arch of a northern authority of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh [JMB], a homegrown nonconformist outfit blamed for a attack. He is also wanted in India for his purported purpose in a 2014 blast in Burdwan, West Bengal, in that dual people were killed and military recovered a outrageous cache of makeshift explosives, a central said.
The detain came within days of US-based monitoring organisation SITE edition a matter of an Islamic State user who warned of many some-more attacks in West Bengal, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Islamic State claimed a Holey Artisan Bakery conflict though a supervision has blamed homegrown JMB.
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Bangladesh has been disorder from a spate of nonconformist assault in new years, with dozens of foreigners, physical writers, non-believer activists and members of eremite minorities killed. Since a cafeteria attack, confidence army have gunned down scarcely 70 extremists opposite a nation and dull adult scores more.
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