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GULSHAN ATTACK: Suspect dies at DMCH under police custody

Local July 10, 2016

One of the suspects held during the July 1st terrorist attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in the capital’s Gulshan diplomatic enclave died in police custody at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday.
Police have also re-organised security arrangement across the country after repeated attacks by the extremists, officials said.
The Counter Terrorism and Trans-national Crime unit officials have already identified all the attackers killed in the Spanish restaurant attack, and that police filed a case with the Gulshan police station.

The restaurant deadlock ended after army-led Operation Thunderbolt was carried out on July 2.
The case detailed how the attack took place and what police had seized after Operation
Thunderbolt.
The inspector general of police, AKM Shahidul Hoque, on Saturday claimed that the banned militant Islamist outfit, Jama’atul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, carried out the attacks, one at the Gulshan restaurant in Dhaka on July 1 and the other near the country’s largest Eid congregation at Sholakia in Kishoreganj,
on July 7.
The attack on Gulshan restaurant left 29 people killed, including two police officers, 17 foreign nationals and at least five militant suspects while the attack near Sholakia left four people killed and injured over a dozen.
The attack on Gulshan restaurant located in the vicinity of a dozen of foreign embassies was claimed by Islamic State, according to Site Intelligence Group but the attack near the Eid congregation was not claimed by anyone.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia on Saturday said ‘way of action’ of the police is being redesigned following the attacks and warned that no criminal would be spared if any attempt is made to wage such acts of terrorism in the future.
He said his colleagues would seek assistances from USA, India and Singapore in case of conducting technical and forensic examinations.
On Friday, one of the suspects, Mohammad Shaon, also the cook’s assistant who was held during the operation at Holey Artisan, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital from injuries he sustained during the attack on July 1and his admission into the hospital on July 4, under police custody.
Without elaborating, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesperson deputy commissioner Masudur Rahman said Shaon was a suspect.
The hospital officials said Shaon was kept in police custody until his death on Friday.
Two days after the hostage crisis ended, Shaon was admitted to the DMCH on July 4 with marks of injuries.
On the day (July 4), the police chief only disclosed that two suspects were admitted to the hospital and would be interrogated after they recover.
His family members, however, dismissed the allegations against Shaon of having any involvement with terrorism. They said he was an assistant to the cook and had been working with the restaurant for over a year.
A Queen Mary University of London graduate, Abul Hasanat Rezaul Karim, along with his two children with British citizenship and wife, and nine others, came out of the restaurant building minutes before the army-led Operation Thunderbolt began around 7:40am on July 2.
The operation left six killed including five militant suspects.
On Saturday, Rezaul Karim, managing director of Basic Engineering Limited, said his son was taken into law enforcers’ custody in the evening on July 2 and since then he had been detained.
‘We have kept him in our custody,’ the Detective Branch’s deputy commissioner (east), Mahbub Alam, had told New Age earlier.
The home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan, on Saturday said that police have been interrogating Abul Hasanat Rezaul Karim to determine if he had played any role in the restaurant carnage.