IT expert linked to Dhaka cafe attack
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BANGLADESHI security forces yesterday arrested a computer engineer said to run the social media operations for a group accused of mounting a deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe.
Ashfak-e-Azam and three other suspects were detained in a raid in the capital in which guns, explosives and ammunition were also seized, officials said.
“Azam is the information technology chief of the Sarwar-Tamim group,” said Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the elite Rapid Action Battalion which carried out the raid.
Sarwar-Tamim is a new faction of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh, the Islamist outfit blamed for a string of deadly attacks including a siege at the upscale Dhaka cafe last July in which 22 people — mostly foreigners — were killed.
Azam, 25, had been involved with the group since 2011, running its website and social media accounts, a senior official said.
Police say the four men arrested in Wednesday’s raids were trained militants.
Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country of 160 million, has been reeling from a wave of attacks by extremists on foreigners, rights activists and religious minorities.
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