Bangladesh has alerted Indian security agencies that the mastermind of the deadly Dhaka cafe terror attack may have fled to India, amid a nationwide manhunt to track down the Bangladeshi-Canadian, police chief said on Monday. The police chief s comments came days after Bangladesh identified Chowdhury as the mastermind of the July 1 terrorist attack on a Dhaka cafe. "We have alerted the Indian security agencies against his (Tamim Chowdhury's) possible escape to India to evade the arrest," Bangladesh Police chief AKM Shahidul Hoque told PTI. A newspaper earlier reported that Chowdhury appeared as the leader and main financier of a reorganised Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) while Bangladesh earlier attributed the two attacks to the outfit. Hoque, however, said a reconstituted JMB, which he preferred to call "neo-JMB", was identifying them as IS operatives in Bangladesh.

Source: dna August 01, 2016 14:26 UTC