Press Trust of India
Dhaka, July 5: Bangladesh Tuesday pressed anti-terrorism charges against several suspects and identified the fifth assailant in the country’s worst terror attack as authorities intensified efforts to unravel the plot behind the brazen assault in which 22 people were slaughtered by Islamists.
The charges against the suspects were filed at Gulshan Police Station at midnight, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque said. Islamist gunmen stormed a popular restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic enclave late Friday and killed 22 people, most of them foreigners from Italy, Japan, India and the US in an attack claimed by the Islamic State terror group.
“We filed the case under the Anti-terrorism Act…five men have been made accused by their names and several others as unidentified accused,” the duty officer of the police station said. Police Monday said two persons were in their custody who will be quizzed later as they are unwell.