Bangladeshi security forces killed four Islamist militants, including the mastermind of the attack on a cafe in Dhaka, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the head of police counter-terrorism in the capital said on Saturday.
Chowdhury is a Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen. The militants were killed in a raid at their hideout in Naraynganj, outskirts of Dhaka, Moniru Islam, the unit’s chief, told Reuters.
Islam had earlier said the raid was conducted upon information gleaned from an arrested operative of the banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Chowdhury was identified by police as the mastermind of the cafe attack in Dhaka that killed 22 people, including an Indian girl Tarishi Jain, and two police officers, and the subsequent assault on the Eid congregation at Sholakia.
According to police, Chowdhury used to stay in Canada, and might have developed a network of financiers abroad before coming to Bangladesh in 2013. Police had announced Tk 2 million reward earlier this month for information leading to Chowdhury’s arrest.
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