Bangladesh police may have shot hostage
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ONE of the men shot dead during a Dhaka cafe siege at the weekend may have been a hostage killed by mistake, police in Bangladesh said yesterday.
Meanwhile, the hunt for accomplices of the gunmen who killed 20 people focused on six suspects.
Police named five Bangladeshi gunmen who stormed the restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone late on Friday. Most of the victims in the violence claimed by Islamic State were foreigners, from Italy, Japan, India and the United States.
It was one of the deadliest attacks in Bangladesh, where Islamic State and al-Qaida have claimed a series of killings in the past year.
The government has dismissed those claims, as it did the Islamic State claim of responsibility.
Pictures of five young men clutching guns and grinning in front of a black flag were posted on an Islamic State website hours after the attack, along with the claim of responsibility, but despite that, authorities have ruled out a foreign link.
Police believe Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, an outlawed domestic group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, played a significant role in organizing the band of privileged, educated young attackers.
Confusion over exactly how many gunmen were involved was at least partly cleared up yesterday when police said among the six people security forces killed when they stormed the building to end a 12-hour stand-off was Saiful Islam Chowkidar, a pizza maker at the Holey Artisan restaurant.
Naming the five attackers in a case filed yesterday allows police to launch official investigations, including questioning their families.
Two other suspects are in hospital.
Police said they are hunting for six members of the JMB who were suspected of organizing the attack.
The five named in the case were Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz, Meer Saameh Mubasheer, Khairul Islam and Shafiqul Islam.
At least three of the gunmen were from wealthy, liberal families who had attended elite Dhaka schools, in contrast to the traditional Bangladeshi militant’s path from poverty to violence.
Two had attended a private university in Malaysia.
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