“They are members of the Jamaeytul Mujahdeen Bangladesh,” home minister Asaduzzaman Khan told AFP, referring to a group which has been banned in Bangladesh for more than a decade. Photo: AFPDhaka:The jihadists who slaughtered 20 hostages at a Dhaka restaurant were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant outfit and not followers of the Islamic State group, a senior minister said Sunday. Police have released the names and photos of six of the attackers who were shot at the end of the siege. No one is from a madrassa,” the minister said. Asked why they would have become Islamist militants, Khan said: “It has become a fashion.”

Source: Mint July 03, 2016 04:52 UTC