Posted on 07/01/2016 10:12:55 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Several police officials have been wounded in the apparent terrorist attack, at least 20 civilians, mostly foreigners, held hostage inside the restaurant, according to witness accounts -
(Excerpt) Read more at dhakatribune.com ...
WHERE IS THIS TAKING PLACE ..???????????
Bangladesh I think
Bangladesh.
India apparently.
L
Formerly known as East Pakistan. Muslim.
For those of you like me said “Where the #$%^ is Gulshan”....
Gulshan is an affluent neighbourhood in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh
RAB official: “A few staff members of the restaurant were able to escape” #Dhaka #Gulshan
Cnn .. The perps are tossing hand grenades at the police outside the restaurant that hostages are being held in.
Yeah judging by that Ansar Islam tweet, those involved are in it for the long haul.
Police in firefight with gunmen in Bangladesh capital
AFP via Yahoo! News Jul 01 10:27 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/police-firefight-gunmen-bangladesh-capital-172710422.html
Dhaka (AFP) - A massive firefight has broken out between police and an unknown number of gunmen in a restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone, police said Friday night, with reports that some people may have been taken hostage.
Is Rama Dama Ding Dong over yet?
Just another boring day with the peaceful muslims...................
Yes, this must be an ending celebration.....................
No. Islamoducks offended by non-Muslims eating.
Live update: Hostage situation, shooting at Gulshan
Tribune Online Report
Several police officials have been wounded in the apparent terrorist attack, at least 20 civilians, mostly foreigners, held hostage inside the restaurant, according to witness accounts
http://www.dhakatribune.com/2016/jul/01/hostage-situation-holey-artisan-bakery-gulshan
11:20pm- “We are requesting the ones who are inside the restaurant to talk to us, relay usyour demands,” said the RAB DG.
11:20pm- The RAB DG confirms that the gunmen kept the hostages at O’kitchen restaurant, which is a sister concern of the Holey Artisan bakery and operates from the same building at Road-79 in Gulshan 2.
11:20pm- Dubbing the ongoing incident a hostage situation, the RAB Director-General Benazir Ahmed told reporters on site: “We would like to resolve the situation peacefully. And I urge everyone to remain calm and not to panic.” He declined to provide further information on the development.
11:10pm- Members of police Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Bomb Disposal Unit are at the site, confirms police sources.
11:00pm- Three ambulances kept stand-by near the site to move any injured urgently to hospitals, police sources said.
10:55pm- Sumon Reza, superviser at the bakery, who escaped the attack, told reporters that at least 20 people were at the bakery when the attack began and all of them were foreigners. He saw two attackers and both of them were slim and appeared to be under 30. He said they had small firearms and at least one was carrying a sharp weapon. He said the attackers were shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ when coming into the bakery. Two of the bakery’s staff are also foreigners, he said. One baker, an Italian, had escaped the attack but the other one, an Argentine, could not, according to Reza. His information could not immediately be verified.
10:45pm- Three people were shot at 10:30pm. Of them, two are police personnel, poilce sources confirmed.
.- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/2016/jul/01/hostage-situation-holey-artisan-bakery-gulshan#sthash.ajqK9UKJ.dpuf
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