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.
Students of UC Berkeley gathered Tuesday to remember one of their own with a vigil for Tarishi Jain, a victim of the Bangladesh terror attacks, who attended the university.
The Autopsies of the six alleged terrorists who were killed during Bangladesh Army’s Operation Thunderbolt are completed at the Combined Military Hospital this evening.
Expressing serious concern over the systematic attacks and gradual escalation of terrorism and violent extremism, foreign diplomats in Dhaka stress the need for more effective security steps.
Expressing his shock at Friday's militant attack at a Gulshan cafe, Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus condoles family members of the 22 people brutally killed by the militants.
Police detain the father and a brother of Shafiqul Islam Uzzal, one of the five militants who took part in the Gulshan restaurant attack on Friday, from their house in Dhunat upazila of Bogra.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says the Gulshan cafe attackers were members of different banned and local militant outfits.
Emory University says they will hold a vigil to remember two students killed when a group of armed extremists stormed a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
"Don't call her a martyr, she wanted to live," said Tulika Jain, mother of Tarishi who was killed in the Dhaka terror attack.
Pakistan's Foreign Office on Monday denied that Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) was behind the Dhaka carnage and described the allegations as “baseless and unfounded”.
The unprecedented Gulshan café attack that claimed lives of 20 hostages, most of them foreigners, seems to have compelled Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to refrain from accusing each other of patronising terrorists and carrying out attacks by their party men.
