Dhaka Restaurant Terror Attack

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.

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.

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

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.

Shortly before she was killed at a Dhaka restaurant, 19-year-old Tarishi Jain, hid in a toilet from where she made a frantic phone call to her uncle for help.

A dessert chef who is only one of two Italians to survive the Dhaka restaurant siege says he took refuge in an adjoining house and stayed there long after the massacre ended.

Seven terrorists who killed 20 people at a Dhaka restaurant made no demands and a person taken alive by police was only a suspect admitted in hospital, Bangladesh's home minister said on Sunday, rejecting ISIS' claims of responsibility.

BSF has been put on "very high alert" along the 443-km long Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya following the killing of 20 hostages in a terror attack at a restaurant in Dhaka, an official said today.

The terrorists who launched Friday's attack on a Dhaka restaurant, slaughtering 20 hostages, were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant group and not followers of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, a senior minister of Bangladesh has said.

The attack on a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital left 22 people dead including two policemen and 20 hostages, the Bangladesh army said on Saturday, most killed with sharp weapons.

The owner of the Bangladeshi restaurant Holey Artisan Bakery at the center of the bloody hostage-taking said he wasn't able to communicate with his staff.

Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant to end a hostage-taking by heavily armed militants early Saturday, killing six of the attackers and rescuing 13 captives including foreigners. One terrorist was also caught alive.

Bangladesh forces stormed a restaurant where heavily armed terrorists held dozens of people hostage for 10 hours, triggering explosions and finding at least five bodies lying in pools of blood. Japan government said that 12 people were rescued.

The details remain murky. On Friday night, assailants assaulted a restaurant in an upscale neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh's teeming capital. They fired weapons and hurled grenades. Initial reports suggest that there are six to eight gunmen inside the establishment, detaining about 20 hostages. At least one police officer has been slain during th...

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.

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.

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

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.

Shortly before she was killed at a Dhaka restaurant, 19-year-old Tarishi Jain, hid in a toilet from where she made a frantic phone call to her uncle for help.

A dessert chef who is only one of two Italians to survive the Dhaka restaurant siege says he took refuge in an adjoining house and stayed there long after the massacre ended.

Seven terrorists who killed 20 people at a Dhaka restaurant made no demands and a person taken alive by police was only a suspect admitted in hospital, Bangladesh's home minister said on Sunday, rejecting ISIS' claims of responsibility.

BSF has been put on "very high alert" along the 443-km long Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya following the killing of 20 hostages in a terror attack at a restaurant in Dhaka, an official said today.

The terrorists who launched Friday's attack on a Dhaka restaurant, slaughtering 20 hostages, were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant group and not followers of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, a senior minister of Bangladesh has said.

The attack on a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital left 22 people dead including two policemen and 20 hostages, the Bangladesh army said on Saturday, most killed with sharp weapons.

The owner of the Bangladeshi restaurant Holey Artisan Bakery at the center of the bloody hostage-taking said he wasn't able to communicate with his staff.

Bangladeshi forces stormed an upscale Dhaka restaurant to end a hostage-taking by heavily armed militants early Saturday, killing six of the attackers and rescuing 13 captives including foreigners. One terrorist was also caught alive.

Bangladesh forces stormed a restaurant where heavily armed terrorists held dozens of people hostage for 10 hours, triggering explosions and finding at least five bodies lying in pools of blood. Japan government said that 12 people were rescued.

The details remain murky. On Friday night, assailants assaulted a restaurant in an upscale neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh's teeming capital. They fired weapons and hurled grenades. Initial reports suggest that there are six to eight gunmen inside the establishment, detaining about 20 hostages. At least one police officer has been slain during th...