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Bangladeshi Police Kill Dhaka Cafe Attack Suspect, Accomplice

© AP PhotoPeople help an unidentified injured person after a group of gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 1, 2016.
People help an unidentified injured person after a group of gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 1, 2016. - Sputnik International
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Bangladeshi counterterrorism police killed two militants in a gunfight on Friday, one of them is a prime suspect in a deadly terrorist attack on a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The exchange of fire took place near Mohammadpur Beribandh area in Dhaka at 3 a. m. (21:00 GMT) on Friday, chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism unit Monirul Islam told Bdnews 24.

Bangladeshi security forces block the road after militants took hostages at a restaurant popular with foreigners in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 2, 2016 - Sputnik International
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According to the news outlet, the suspect was identified as Nurul Islam Marjan, a commander of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) jihadist group. His accomplice was not identified yet.

On July 1, 2016, Islamist militants took hostages inside a cafe located in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter. A total of 22 people had been killed by the hostage takers before the Bangladeshi security forces began their operation to free the people.

Daesh (outlawed in Russia) had initially claimed responsibility for the attack, however the Bangladeshi authorities later accused the JMB of the slaughter.

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