Dhaka Attack

Dhaka Attack

DMP forms body to probe how convict got IS cap

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.

4y ago

In photos: Verdict on Holey Artisan Café attack

Seven militants have been sentenced to death for their involvement in 2016 Holey Artisan cafe attack that left 22 people, including 17 foreigners, dead.

4y ago

Where did the IS cap come from?

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.

4y ago

AC Rabiul’s family wants quick execution of verdict

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.

4y ago

Gulshan Café attack case: Prosecution happy with verdict

The prosecution has expressed their satisfaction over the verdict that awarded death penalty to seven militants in Holey Artisan Café attack case.

4y ago

Holey Artisan Attack: Key witness testifies

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.

5y ago

Holey Artisan Case: Khaled sent Tk 39 lakh to fund attack

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.

5y ago

JMB 'plan for prison van attack' foiled

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.

5y ago

Hasnat shown arrested in Dhaka attack case

Former university teacher Hasnat Karim is shown arrested in a case filed in connection with Dhaka café attack on July 1. Hasnat and another suspect Tahmid Hasib are placed on fresh remand.

7y ago

Cops to examine newly released photos of Hasnat, Tahmid

Law enforcers are to examine the newly released photographs of Hasnat Karim and Tahmid Hasib with a Gulshan café attacker, published in different newspapers.

7y ago

Dhaka attack: A survivor’s statement

Indian national Sat Prakash gave a statement to the court on July 26 on his survival and experience from the Gulshan café attack. For our readers we are reproducing the statement unedited.

7y ago

Dhaka attack: Another mastermind identified, police say

Another mastermind of Gulshan café attack is identified and he is a close aide of Bangladeshi origin Canadian citizen Tamim Chowdhury, police claim.

7y ago

Strengthen anti-militancy awareness: PM

Reiterating her firm resolve to free the country from terrorism and militancy, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges all, including Alem-Ulema, to strengthen the spirit against terrorism and militancy among common people.

7y ago

Dhaka attack arms supplier, trainer ‘identified’

Police claim to have primarily identified the trainer of Dhaka attack militants and the arms supplier of the café attack that left 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, dead on July 1.

7y ago

Dhaka raid: 5 detainees on remand

A Dhaka court today places five persons including the owner of Taj Manzil and her son on a two-day remand for giving shelter to militants killed at a flat of the building.

7y ago

Dhaka attack: New pictures of Tahmid, Hasnat with terrorist emerge

Two photographs of Hasnat Karim and Tahmid Hasib that surfaced following the Gulshan café attack have sparked new interests. In the photos taken from a nearby building, former university teacher Hasnat and Canadian university student Tahmid are seen talking with one of the militants Rohan Imtiaz, who attacked the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone on July 1.

7y ago

Dhaka attack: Hasnat, Tahmid remanded after ‘arrest’

Ex-private university teacher Hasnat Karim and Canadian university student Tahmid Hasib, who were untraceable for a month, have been remanded after cops produced them before court as suspects of Dhaka attack.

7y ago

Caretaker remanded for ‘sheltering’ Dhaka attacker

A Dhaka court places a caretaker of a house at Rupnagar in Dhaka’s Mirpur area, on a two-day remand for his alleged involvement with renting out a flat to one of suspected Gulshan café attackers.

7y ago
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