Two of the attackers were killed, Rahman said. It was one of the deadliest attacks ever in Bangladesh, where al Qaeda and Islamic State have made competing claims for a series of killings of liberals and members of religious minorities in the past year. After last week's attack, Islamic State warned that the violence would continue until Islamic law was established worldwide, saying in a video that the Dhaka assault was just a hint of what was to come. The militants attacked police with "sharp weapons" after the grenades exploded, said Mohammad Azimuddin Sheikh, another senior district official. The violence rattled nerves less than a week after militants killed 20 people, mostly foreigners, in an attack on a cafe in the capital claimed by the Islamic State militant group.

Source: Thanhnien News July 07, 2016 07:07 UTC