People help an injured person after a group of gunmen attacked a restaurant in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Friday, July 1, 2016. Our first priority is to save the lives of the people trapped inside," he added. The head of Bangladesh's elite anti-crime force, Rapid Action Battalion, told reporters Friday night that they were working to save the lives of the people trapped inside the restaurant. (Mahmud Hossain Opu/Getty Images)The Islamic State group's Amaq News Agency said "Islamic State commandos" carried out the restaurant attack, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist activity online. As many as nine gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Friday night, taking hostages, killing two police officers and wounding at least 26 people in a gunbattle with security forces.

Source: CBC News July 01, 2016 18:44 UTC