2016 BBC News Bangladesh Islamists Kill 20 Hostages in Dhakas Upmarket Bakery Cafe 2716

(BBC News, 2 Jul 2016) - Twenty people, best said to be foreigners, accept been asleep in an advance by doubtable Islamist militants on a cafe in Bangladesh, the army says.
Gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery cafe in Dhaka backward on Friday afore troops entered about 12 hours later.
Six of the attackers were additionally asleep and one was arrested, a government agent said. The advance was claimed by the alleged Islamic Accompaniment (IS).
Italys PM Matteo Renzi accepted that Itali ans were amid the dead.
He offered condolences to the victims families and, apropos to the attackers, said: Our ethics are stronger than abhorrence and terror.
Italian news bureau Ansa said up to 10 Italians may be unaccounted for. The Italian columnist said abounding of those dining at the cafe formed in the apparel industry.
The army had initially said all hostages asleep were foreigners, but afterwards letters said some Bangladeshis additionally died.
In added developments:
* Indias adopted abbot said a adolescent Indian woman was amid the dead;
* Bangladesh Army Brig Gen Naim Asraf Chowdhury said the victims had been atrociously attacked with aciculate weapons;
* Japans Agent Arch Chiffonier Secretary Koichi Hagiuda said seven Japanese nationals were in the cafe, but that the government had not yet been able to acquaintance them;
* Gen Chowdhury said 13 bodies were rescued, including one Japanese civic and two Sri Lankans
The annoy began as diners were acquisition to breach their fast during the Muslim angelic ages of Ramadan.
It was an acutely abhorrent act, Prime Abbot Sheikh Hasina said in a televised statement. What affectionate of Muslims are these people? They dont accept any religion.
My government is bent to basis out agitation and aggression from Bangladesh.
Bangladeshs Circadian Brilliant bi-weekly said the gunmen bent anyone who was clumsy to recite the Koran. They provided commons brief for alone the Bangladeshi captives, it said.
Sumon Reza, a administrator at the cafe in the Gulshan commune of Dhaka, managed to abscond to the roof back the attackers access in.
The accomplished architecture was afraid back they set off explosives, he told bounded media. He afterwards jumped from the roof and escaped.
From 08:00 it all started, said Rashila Rahim, who lives abreast the cafe. Gunshots, catchbasin It was like we were in the middle, and gunshots from all around.
The advance began back eight or nine armed men access into the cafe at about 21:20 (15:20 GMT) on Friday and opened fire.
Media letters quoted assemblage as adage that they shouted Allahu Akbar, acceptation God is great.
At atomic two badge admiral were asleep in exchanges of blaze backward on Friday, and 30 badge admiral were injured.
A account on ISs self-styled Amaq news bureau said militants had attacked a restaurant frequented by foreigners.
Lt Col Tuhin Mohammad Masud, administrator of the Accelerated Activity Battalion, told Associated Columnist the gunmen did not acknowledge back asked to negotiate. It is cryptic if they fabricated any demands.
The advance comes afterwards a access of murders of civil bloggers, gay activists, academics and associates of religious minorities, abhorrent on Islamist militants.
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