Dead Bangladesh-American suspect was friend of cafe attacker: police
Source: Reuters
World | Thu Jul 28, 2016 6:46am EDT
Dead Bangladesh-American suspect was friend of cafe attacker: police
DHAKA | BY RUMA PAUL
One of nine suspected militants killed in a police raid in Bangladesh this week was a Bangladeshi-American who was a friend of one of the gunmen who attacked a cafe on July 1 killing 22 people, police said on Thursday.
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On Tuesday, police raided a building in a Dhaka suburb and killed nine militants, who police said were from the same domestic group as the cafe attackers, and who had been plotting their own similar attack.
Eight of the nine were identified from their fingerprints, which are taken when national identity cards are issued, and one turned out to be a wanted Bangladeshi-American, said Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman.
"Shazad Rouf, 24, was an American passport holder and had been missing for six months," Rahman told Reuters.
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