Dhaka terror attack News

Two suspected terrorists have climbed into the hands of the police from Patna, the capital of Bihar. According to the claims of Patna Police, they were also surprised to know the intentions of these two arrested terrorists. Terror training was being given here.

Following the Dhaka terror attacks last year, the National Investigation Agency had filed a case against Zakir Naik and other officials of his NGO Islamic Research Foundation.

On the evening of July 1, five operatives of Islamic State-inclined Neo-Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB) stormed into the eatery and started firing indiscriminately. They turned off all the lights and held the diners hostage.  

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday issued a notice to controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik asking him to join the investigation at the NIA headquarter on March 14. 

Bangladesh Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested Neo-JMB terrorist Jahangir Alam, one of the key figures behind the Gulshan café terror attack in 2016 in which over 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed.

Marjan was the youngest military commander of the Neo-JMB, a new faction of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.

The agency has raided 21 properties of Naik, his office bearers, his immediately family members and others holding various posts in his NGO and private television channel.

Bangladesh police on Thursday said they have identified 10 people who hatched, planned or provided weapons and money to militants for storming a Dhaka cafe on July 1, days after the key mastermind of the country's worst terror attack was killed.

Bangladeshi investigators probing the brazen terror attack on a cafe here say they have identified five businessmen who have allegedly financed a new Islamist group to carry out operations and are now trying to arrest them.

A British national and a student at a Canadian university have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in last month`s deadly siege at a cafe in Bangladesh`s capital, police said Thursday.

The man from Noakhali identified the slain militant as Jubair Hasan, while the Chittagong man identified him as Sabbir Huq Konik.

Police inspector Jasim Uddin, who is investigating the death, said senior mill employees had been "angry" with the boy and his father who also worked there for entering a restricted area.

 Bangladesh has handed over blood samples of the Gulshan cafe terror attackers to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for testing, police here said on Friday.

Bangladesh relies on garments for more than 80 percent of its exports and roughly 4 million jobs. 

Bangladesh said it has identified the masterminds of the deadly Dhaka cafe terror attack.

Naik came under Indian security forces' radar after it emerged that two of the recent Dhaka attack terrorists were inspired by his teachings.

Zakir Naik's UK-registered Islamic Research Foundation International (IRFI) is believed to have received over 15 crore till 2012 from donors mostly from Britain and Saudi Arabia.

Assam Police on Monday asked people not to get panicky over reports of "some jehadis" entering the state from Bangladesh saying it was looking into the issue.

The two witnesses to the terror attack in a Dhaka cafe on July 1 have been missing even though police have claimed that they were released on the night of July 6.

An IRF spokesperson further said that a press conference which Naik was due to address in Mumbai tomorrow also stands cancelled.