[IsraelTimes] As many as nine gunnies attacked in Dhaka, killing two officers and wounding at least 26 people in a gunbattle with security forces
Bangladesh security forces including commandos Saturday stormed a restaurant in the capital Dhaka where dozens of people including foreigners were being held hostage by suspected Islamist bully boys, a security official said.
"The operation has began. Commandos have stormed the restaurant," the official said.
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Bangladesh security forces ended a siege Saturday at a cafe in Dhaka where dozens of diners were being held captive and shot dead six of the hostage-takers, officials said.
"The operation is over. The situation is completely under control," army spokesman Colonel Rashidul Hasan told Agence France Presse.
Tuhin Mohammad Masud, a commander of the elite Rapid Action Battalion which stormed the cafe, said there had been a number of casualties, including six hostage-takers.
"We have gunned down six of the terrorists. The main area that they have been occupying has been cleared," Masud told India's Times Now television channel.
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