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.
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj claims that an Indian female student is among the 28 dead at Holey Artisan cafe.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls his Bangladesh counterpart and expresses his condolence for the hostage situation at Holey Artisan Bakery that claimed the lives of 28 people.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announces a two-day national mourning for the victims of Holey Artisan Bakery attack at Gulshan diplomatic zone in Dhaka and urges all, including anti-terrorism committees, community police and general people, to get united to resist a handful of derailed terrorists.
A man shoots dead five people, including his wife, and injures another 20 in a cafe in northern Serbia, police say, with jealousy as the suspected motive.
In the backdrop of confusion over whether there is any Bangladeshi citizen among the dead victims at Holey Artisan cafe, a top military officer insists that not all of the 20 killed by the militants were foreigners.
Police officers Rabiul Islam and Salauddin Khan, who were injured during standoff with gunmen last evening, died of splinter injuries, doctors say.
Facebook has activated safety check feature so that people in Dhaka can let their friends and family know if they are safe after gunmen took hostage at a Spanish restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone.
Attackers killed 20 hostages, mostly with sharp weapons, inside Holey Artisan café, ISPR says. Six gunmen were killed while one was held alive. Sharp weapons, unexploded IED and walkie-talkie were recovered.
Those who could recite a verse from the Quran were spared, others were tortured, says a rescued hostage of the Gulshan restaurant attack where at least two lawmen have been killed.
Soumir Baroi held hostage inside one of the bathrooms at Holey Artisan Bakery, which is witnessing a hostage situation, managed to establish contact with his brother Gopal via texts.
