In particular, investigators zeroed in on the Twitter account of Nibras Islam (24) one of the attackers identified. Among just 12 accounts he followed was that of @shamiwitness, the pro-Islamic State account run by Mehdi Masroor Biswas, an electrical engineer arrested from Bengaluru in 2014. “They are all highly educated young Bangladesh men and went to university. Nibras Islam studied in North South University of Dhaka and went to study at the Malaysia branch of the Australia-based Monash University in 2014. Another attacker, Mir Sabih Mubasher, is a former student of Dhaka Scholastica and like Rohan he too went missing in March.

Source: The Hindu July 04, 2016 01:18 UTC