No info on Tamim getting IS nod before Dhaka attack: DMP chief

Police today said they do not have any information on Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury winning Islamic State’s (IS) approval before orchestrating the Dhaka attack.

While replying to a query on Thursday’s Reuters report on IS role in the worst militant attack in Bangladesh on July 1, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia told journalists, “as there is no information on this, I don’t want to make any comment on it”.

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Detectives will investigate into this matter, the DMP chief added.

He said the law enforcers have killed and arrested militants in separate drives in the country since the attack on at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan. Now, the militants do not have the capability to organise a large-scale attack in the country, he added.

The DMP chief was speaking to journalists during a programme at the police headquarters in Dhaka.

In the programme, Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd (DBBL) donated Tk 2 crore for construction of a building for Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police.    

Twenty hostages, including 17 foreigners, and two police officials were killed before an army-backed commando team killed the five.

Tamim was shot dead with his two accomplices in a police raid in Narayanganj on August 27.

Born on July 25, 1986 in Windsor in Canada, Tamim resided for a long time in Calgary and used to mix with people who had joined IS and gone to Syria.