20 foreigners, two police officers killed in Bangladesh's worst hostage crisis
Gunmen killed 20 foreigners soon after they stormed a Spanish restaurant in the capital of Dhaka in Bangladesh's worst hostage crisis, a spokesman of the Bangladesh Army said on Saturday.
Director of Military Operations Brigadier General Naim Ashfaq Chowdhury did not disclose nationality of the victims.
But sources said all the victims were foreign nationals, mostly Italians and Japanese. Two senior police officers were also killed in the early hours of the attack on Friday night in the Holey Artisan Bakery restaurant, a popular destination of foreigners.
Chowdhury told a press briefing that most of the victims were killed by slitting throats.
He also said six attackers were killed during an armed raid on Saturday morning that ended the 13-hour siege in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan.
"We've managed to capture one attacker alive," he said.
