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Bangladesh cafe attack suspect killed in gunfight, say police Bangladesh cafe attack 'mastermind' killed in gunfight, say police
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The man believed to have been behind the cafe attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh in July in which 20 hostages died has been killed in shootout, say police. One of the suspected masterminds of the cafe attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh in July in which 20 hostages died has been killed in a shootout, police said.
Nurul Islam Marzan and a second unidentified man were killed in the early hours of Friday in Dhaka.Nurul Islam Marzan and a second unidentified man were killed in the early hours of Friday in Dhaka.
The men's bodies were found after police raided a building in the Rayer Bazar area, AFP reported. The men's bodies were found after anti-terrorism police raided a building in the Rayer Bazar area, AFP reported.
The hostages were shot or hacked to death in what was Bangladesh's worst ever terror attack.The hostages were shot or hacked to death in what was Bangladesh's worst ever terror attack.
Two police officers and six militants were also killed when commandos stormed the Holey Artisan cafe in the Gulshan neighbourhood after a 12-hour siege, rescuing 13 people. On 1 July last year, commandos stormed the Holey Artisan cafe in the Gulshan neighbourhood after a 12-hour siege, rescuing 13 people. Two police officers and six militants were killed.
Marzan, leader of the banned Neo-JBM (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh) militant group, was believed to have been the operational commander of the attack. Marzan, a senior figure in the banned militant group Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), was believed to have been the operational commander of the attack.
Who were victims of Bangladesh cafe attack? It is thought to have been planned with Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a Canadian of Bangladeshi descent, who was killed in a police raid near Dhaka in August 2016.
Bangladesh at crossroads as violence hits The so-called Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the cafe attack, posting online images of the attackers with a black IS flag. But Bangladeshi authorities have long insisted IS has no presence in the country and that JMB was solely to blame.
Since the attack, authorities have led a crackdown on militants, leaving dozens dead, many of them senior members of JMB.
The roughly 30-year-old Marzan joined a branch of JMB in 2015, after dropping out of Chittagong University, where he was an Arabic student.