Muslim Extremists in the last 2 years have hacked to death (with machetes) about 20 Journalists, Bloggers, Atheists, Gays, Buddhist Monks etc Now this.
Gunmen have attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Friday, according to police and witness reports. At least one policeman has reportedly died, and dozens of people are being held hostage.
There are “reports of shooting and hostage situation,” the US embassy in Bangladesh has tweeted.
Bangladeshi police exchanged fire with armed men at a Dhaka restaurant popular with foreigners, Reuters reported.
At least 20 people, most of them foreigners, have been taken hostage, according to local media citing witnesses. Several policemen have been injured. One of them later died of his wounds, a top official at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed.
The attack was carried out by a group of at least nine people, according to local media. They entered the restaurant at around 9:20pm local time and reportedly opened fire and set off explosions.
One of the attackers was armed with a sword, the others carried guns, an employee of a nearby café told RT. He estimated the number of hostages as at least 30.
A kitchen worker who managed to escape the building said the attackers chanted “Allahu Akbar.”
“They blasted several crude bombs, causing wide-scale panic among everyone. I managed to flee during this confusion,” he said, according to The Daily Star, a Bangladeshi English-language newspaper. The paper puts the number of injuries at 30.
Police have cordoned off the site and are now planning a rescue operation, a police chief told Reuters.
The targeted area of Gulshan is a neighborhood in the capital city of Dhaka that hosts many nongovernmental organizations and embassies, including that of the US.
https://www.rt.com/news/349188-shooting-bangladesh-hostage-reports/
Gunmen have attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Friday, according to police and witness reports. At least one policeman has reportedly died, and dozens of people are being held hostage.
There are “reports of shooting and hostage situation,” the US embassy in Bangladesh has tweeted.
Bangladeshi police exchanged fire with armed men at a Dhaka restaurant popular with foreigners, Reuters reported.
At least 20 people, most of them foreigners, have been taken hostage, according to local media citing witnesses. Several policemen have been injured. One of them later died of his wounds, a top official at Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) confirmed.
The attack was carried out by a group of at least nine people, according to local media. They entered the restaurant at around 9:20pm local time and reportedly opened fire and set off explosions.
One of the attackers was armed with a sword, the others carried guns, an employee of a nearby café told RT. He estimated the number of hostages as at least 30.
A kitchen worker who managed to escape the building said the attackers chanted “Allahu Akbar.”
“They blasted several crude bombs, causing wide-scale panic among everyone. I managed to flee during this confusion,” he said, according to The Daily Star, a Bangladeshi English-language newspaper. The paper puts the number of injuries at 30.
Police have cordoned off the site and are now planning a rescue operation, a police chief told Reuters.
The targeted area of Gulshan is a neighborhood in the capital city of Dhaka that hosts many nongovernmental organizations and embassies, including that of the US.
https://www.rt.com/news/349188-shooting-bangladesh-hostage-reports/