Dhaka Metropolitan Police has formed a three-member committee to investigate how a death row convict managed a prayer cap emblazoned with the IS logo at a courtroom during the verdict of the Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Seven militants have been sentenced to death for their involvement in 2016 Holey Artisan cafe attack that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead.
After a Dhaka tribunal delivered the verdict in the Holey Artisan Café attack case today, one of death row convicts reached into his pocket and brought out a prayer cap emblazoned with the emblem of the Islamic State.
The family of Detective Branch of Police’s Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim wants immediate execution of the verdict in the Holey Artisan café attack case.
The prosecution has expressed their satisfaction over the verdict that awarded death penalty to seven militants in Holey Artisan Café attack case.
Sharmina Parvin, one of the eyewitnesses of the Holey Artisan attack, yesterday told a tribunal in Dhaka how she saw innocent people being killed by the militants.
Shariful Islam alias Khaled, the last of the charge-sheeted accused to be arrested in the Dhaka café attack case, was a meritorious student before he got involved with banned militant outfit JMB, a top official of Rapid Acton Battalion says.
Banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was planning a Trishal-like prison van ambush to snatch the inmates accused in the Gulshan café attack case.
The five Gulshan café attackers are among around a dozen youths who are missing and suspected to have joined a militant group, says an official of the Detective Branch of Police.
Laying emphasis on extra safety of its personnel, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) says it remains "firmly committed" to contributing to the development of Bangladesh.
The dangerous fate of Fahim, Rohan, Mubasher and Nibras shows how our youths are becoming weapons of destruction if they are brainwashed and transformed into militants.
A Dhaka court orders Gulshan police to submit by August 24 the probe report in connection with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack that left 22 innocent people including several foreigners dead.
In the wake of the Dhaka attack that left 22 people killed, the nation is trying to come to terms with the identity of the killers who, it looks like, came from affluent families and even shared similar backgrounds as some of their victims in the attack.
Attacker Nibras Islam's parents apologise to the nation, the countrymen and the victim's families for his involvement in terror attack at a restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone last Friday.
The bodies of seven Japanese killed in a terrorist attack in Bangladesh had few scars, suggesting the victims had little time to resist before being fatally wounded, according to police autopsies conducted on the victims’ bodies.
If Bangladesh requests to ban, India will examine a controversial Indian Islamic preacher who was followed by one of the five Bangladeshi youths involved in the Gulshan terrorist attack that left 22 dead.
"These are not men who did this in any random manner. These were people who were trained and knew exactly how to instil fear."
Police shot dead the pizza chef of a Dhaka restaurant, mistakenly thinking he was one of the militants who killed 20 people, and misread online warnings of an impending assault, police and government officials says.
