Bangladeshi police said today security forces may have shot dead a hostage by mistake. (AFP File Photo)
Dhaka:
Bangladeshi police said on Tuesday that security forces may have shot dead a hostage by mistake during a siege in a Dhaka cafe on the weekend, believing he was one of the attackers.
Here are the 10 latest developments on this story:
- 20 hostages and two policemen were killed in an upmarket restaurant late on Friday night.
- Six terrorists were shot dead; a seventh was captured alive by commandos.
- Saiful Islam, a senior police official in Dhaka, said Saiful Islam Chowkidar, a pizza maker at the restaurant, was among those who were shot dead by the police.
- ISIS claimed responsibility for the deadly terror strike, posting photos along with first names of some of the attackers on social media.
- But police and government officials have said the attackers were from a local banned terror group and came from well-off Bangladeshi families, a rarity and an indication that religious radicalisation was widening its scope.
- Among the hostages who were killed was 19-year-old Tarishi Jain, who was cremated yesterday in Gurugram near Delhi. Her parents, Indian citizens, had lived in Dhaka for years where her father ran a garment factory. She was a student at UC Berkeley.
- Bangladesh has blamed the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, which claims to represent the ISIS in the country but has no proven links to it.
- More than 100 commandos stormed the restaurant nearly 10 hours after the siege began, under an operation code-named 'Thunderbolt'. Some analyst have questioned the delay in launching the offensive against the terrorists.
- The hostages who were killed were foreigners. Those who could recite from the Quran were spared.
- Those who were killed were hacked to death with machetes.
