Bangladesh cops storm militant hideout, kill ‘mastermind’ of Dhaka cafe attack
DHAKA: Bangladeshi security forces killed four Islamist militants, including the mastermind of an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month in which 22 people, mostly foreigners, were killed, the head of police counter-terrorism in the capital said on Saturday.The militants were killed in a raid on their hideout in Naraynganj, outskirts of Dhaka, Moniru Islam told Reuters. Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the alleged mastermind of the attack on the cafe, was among those killed, he said.
Tamim Chowdhury had returned to Bangladesh from Canada three years ago. He had since led and financed efforts to radicalise young Muslims
Five assailants stormed an upscale cafe in Dhaka’s Gulshan neighbourhood on July 1 and killed 20 hostages, including 18 foreigners in Bangladesh’s deadliest single militant attack.
The siege was by far the deadliest in a string of attacks claimed by Islamist groups which have blighted Bangladesh over the last three years.
Dozens of foreigners, activists and members of minority religious groups have been killed by Islamists in Bangladesh over the last three years.
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