Militant suspected in Bangladesh cafe attack killed himself: Police

September 11, 2016 09:55

A suspected militant believed by Bangladesh police to have been among the planners of a July cafe attack that killed 22 people killed himself during a police raid on a hideout in the capital, police said on Sunday.

National police chief Shahidul Hoque said the dead man, identified as Abdul Karim, was suspected to be one of the planners of the cafe attack, and to have rented a flat for the militants who carried it out.

"He killed himself inside the flat so that we can't collect information from him through interrogation," another official, Sanwar Hossain, told reporters on Sunday, without elaborating.

Police, who had earlier said they shot the man during Saturday's raid on the hideout, gave no reason for the change.

Three women who were wounded and arrested in the raid also tried to kill themselves, Hossain added.

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