The youth, who studies in Canada, was in Holey Artisan Bakery and O’ Litchen Restaurant when the upscale cafe was besieged by gunmen on the evening of Jul 1. Two policemen died after being hit by grenade when law enforcers tried to approach the cafe. Army commandos stormed the restaurant the following morning, killing six including five gunmen who killed 20 hostages, 17 of them foreigners. Hasanat Karim, a former teacher of the North South University, who was also in the cafe during the attack, was also arrested on that night, police said. On Sunday, he was taken to Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court where his lawyer Md Masud Arif Bhuiyan Hanif pleaded for bail.

Source: bd News24 August 28, 2016 14:26 UTC