Dhaka Restaurant Attack

Bangladesh firefighters said Friday that glaring safety lapses were responsible for a Dhaka restaurant blaze that killed 45 people, with more deaths likely among those rushed to hospital in critical condition.

An upscale Bangladeshi restaurant has banned foreign guests, fearing a repeat of last year's deadly terrorist attack in a Dhaka cafe, the owner said Thursday.

The chief of a radical Islamist group accused of carrying out Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack on a popular cafe in Dhaka in July died during a police raid, the country's elite security force announced today, in a major blow to the ISIS-linked outfit.

A counter-terrorism official says Bangladesh has discovered who funded the July 1 attack in which a group of assailants tortured and killed 20 hostages at a restaurant in Dhaka.

Bangladeshi investigators have sought more samples from the bodies of the slain attackers to check whether the ISIS' 'super soldiers' carried out the country's worst terror attack at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone early this month, killing 22 people.

A special team of NSG officers will be travelling to Bangladesh to "analyse and study" the bombings at an Eid prayer gathering today and the recent terror siege at a high-end restaurant in the neighbouring country.

Islamist terrorists tortured a group of Italians before killing them during an attack on a restaurant in the Bangladesh's capital Dhaka last week, a legal source said on Wednesday.

For nearly 12 hours during which they held people hostage, a group of seven young terrorists forced the staff at an upmarket restaurant in Dhaka to cook a series of meals for them - pasta and fish were their preferred choices, said a young chef who cannot be named for security reasons.

Bangladesh police shot dead the pizza chef of a Dhaka restaurant, mistakenly thinking he was one of the militants who killed 20 people, and misread online warnings of an impending assault, police and government officials said on Tuesday.

The bodies of nine Italians killed by Islamist militants who stormed an upmarket restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital last week were brought to Rome in a military plane on Tuesday.

An eerie silence pervades the restaurants and shopping malls in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter, usually teeming with well-heeled urbanites, now standing empty since the killing of 20 hostages at a popular cafe.

Eoin Morgan also said it was possible that the England and Wales Cricket Board could ask for the matches to be moved to a neutral venue, in wake of the terror attack in a restaurant in Dhaka which left 18 foreigners dead

The bodies of seven Japanese nationals killed in a bloody restaurant attack in Dhaka were returned home early Tuesday on a government plane.

The bodies of seven Japanese nationals killed in a bloody restaurant attack in Dhaka were returned home early today on a government plane.

Foreign companies with nationals working in Bangladesh's garment and building industries have suspended travel to the country and told workers there to stay at home after a deadly attack by Islamist terrorists on a restaurant in Dhaka on Friday.

Bangladesh firefighters said Friday that glaring safety lapses were responsible for a Dhaka restaurant blaze that killed 45 people, with more deaths likely among those rushed to hospital in critical condition.

An upscale Bangladeshi restaurant has banned foreign guests, fearing a repeat of last year's deadly terrorist attack in a Dhaka cafe, the owner said Thursday.

The chief of a radical Islamist group accused of carrying out Bangladesh's deadliest terror attack on a popular cafe in Dhaka in July died during a police raid, the country's elite security force announced today, in a major blow to the ISIS-linked outfit.

A counter-terrorism official says Bangladesh has discovered who funded the July 1 attack in which a group of assailants tortured and killed 20 hostages at a restaurant in Dhaka.

Bangladeshi investigators have sought more samples from the bodies of the slain attackers to check whether the ISIS' 'super soldiers' carried out the country's worst terror attack at an upscale restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone early this month, killing 22 people.

A special team of NSG officers will be travelling to Bangladesh to "analyse and study" the bombings at an Eid prayer gathering today and the recent terror siege at a high-end restaurant in the neighbouring country.

Islamist terrorists tortured a group of Italians before killing them during an attack on a restaurant in the Bangladesh's capital Dhaka last week, a legal source said on Wednesday.

For nearly 12 hours during which they held people hostage, a group of seven young terrorists forced the staff at an upmarket restaurant in Dhaka to cook a series of meals for them - pasta and fish were their preferred choices, said a young chef who cannot be named for security reasons.

Bangladesh police shot dead the pizza chef of a Dhaka restaurant, mistakenly thinking he was one of the militants who killed 20 people, and misread online warnings of an impending assault, police and government officials said on Tuesday.

The bodies of nine Italians killed by Islamist militants who stormed an upmarket restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital last week were brought to Rome in a military plane on Tuesday.

An eerie silence pervades the restaurants and shopping malls in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter, usually teeming with well-heeled urbanites, now standing empty since the killing of 20 hostages at a popular cafe.

Eoin Morgan also said it was possible that the England and Wales Cricket Board could ask for the matches to be moved to a neutral venue, in wake of the terror attack in a restaurant in Dhaka which left 18 foreigners dead

The bodies of seven Japanese nationals killed in a bloody restaurant attack in Dhaka were returned home early Tuesday on a government plane.

The bodies of seven Japanese nationals killed in a bloody restaurant attack in Dhaka were returned home early today on a government plane.

Foreign companies with nationals working in Bangladesh's garment and building industries have suspended travel to the country and told workers there to stay at home after a deadly attack by Islamist terrorists on a restaurant in Dhaka on Friday.