Bangladesh arrests four militants in hunt for cafe attack Islamists

July 21, 2016 17:22

Just in: Bangladesh arrests four Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen terrorists, it's regional head arrested. Huge cache of ammunition and bombs recovered in Gazipur, Bangladesh, reports Reuters.

The banned group is blamed for the Islamist attack on a cafe in Dhaka in which 22 people were killed, mostly foreigners.

The Rapid Action Battalion raided an apartment on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka and arrested the group's southern region leader and three other members, including a medical student, said RAB spokesman Mizanur Rahman Bhuiya.

"They will be interrogated intensively to understand if they had any connection with the cafe attack," he told Reuters.

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