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Four held in cafe attack
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s security force arrested four members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen on Thursday, including a leader of the banned group blamed for the Islamist attack
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s security force arrested four members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen on Thursday, including a leader of the banned group blamed for the Islamist attack on a cafe in Dhaka in which 22 people were killed, mostly foreigners. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided an apartment on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka and arrested the group’s southern region leader and three other members, including a medical student, said RAB spokesman Mizanur Rahman Bhuiya. “They will be interrogated intensively to understand if they had any connection with the cafe attack,” he told Reuters. A huge quality of ammunition, weapons, bomb-making materials and jihadi books have been recovered from the house, which was used for training recruits, Bhuiya added. Five Bangadeshi militants stormed an upmarket restaurant in Dhaka on July 1 and killed customers.
