Dead Bangladesh-US suspect linked to cafe attacker

The attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, a cafe in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter, was one of the most brazen militant assaults in the country’s history. Police have been scouring the country for accomplices of the five gunmen who were all killed when police ended the siege. 

On Tuesday, police raided a building in a Dhaka suburb and killed nine militants, who police said were from the same group as the cafe attackers, and who had been plotting a similar attack.

Seven of the nine dead militants had been identified from their fingerprints, which are taken when national identity cards are issued, and one turned out to a wanted Bangladeshi-American, said a Dhaka police spokesman. 

“Shazad Rouf, 24, was a US passport holder and was missing for six months. Rouf’s father had filed a missing person report for him on February 6, and Rouf had been wanted by police in connection with a case filed under an anti-terrorism law on suspicion of plotting a subversive act.”