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| The terrorists posed, with wide grins, in front of ISIS banners before committing the 'heinous' massacre |
The grinning ISIS terrorists who hacked 20 innocent victims including
westerners to death but spared those who could recite the Koran in Bangladesh
attack
Islamist radicals
slaughtered 20 people after they failed to recite the Koran before being killed
by commandos
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The terrorists, swearing allegiance to ISIS, stormed the cafe in Dhaka armed with guns and knives
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Gunmen then held security services in 12-hour standoff before elite
troops moved in and shot them dead
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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared two days of
national mourning after the massacre
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Nine Italians died and Italy's footballers are wearing black armbands for
tonight's Euro 2016 game with Germany
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ISIS said nationals from 'crusader countries' were not safe 'as long as
their aircraft are killing Muslims'
By CHRIS SUMMERS FOR MAILONLINE and CHRIS PLEASANCE
Jihadist extremists hacked 20 people to death in a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka - sparing only those who could recite from the Koran - before they were gunned down by commandos.
Jihadist extremists hacked 20 people to death in a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka - sparing only those who could recite from the Koran - before they were gunned down by commandos.
Witnesses
said seven Islamist radicals stormed the Holey Artisan bakery and cafe armed
with assault weapons, pistols and 'sharp objects' before taking more than 30
people hostage.
They
killed nine Italians, seven Japanese, an Indian, an American and two local men
before elite commandos ended the 12-hour standoff by storming the cafe.
Six
of the hostage-takers were killed and one was arrested.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina has declared two days of national mourning after the massacre in the
upmarket Gulshan district of the city.
In
a statement on television she said: 'It was an extremely heinous act. What kind
of Muslims are these people? They don't have any religion.'
Most
of the Italian victims were understood to work in the fashion industry, buying
fabrics from Bangladesh.
Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the five men and two women who died worked for
the country's foreign aid agency and 'were giving their all for the development
of Bangladesh'.
ISIS
posted pictures of five of the attackers online along with a
statement: 'Let the people of the crusader countries know that there is no
safety for them as long as their aircraft are killing Muslims.'
The
statement is believed to be aimed at British and American air strikes in Syria
and Iraq, although neither Italy or Japan are involved in that
campaign.
The terrorists posed, with wide grins,
in front of ISIS banners before committing the 'heinous' massacre
Bangladesh
has seen an increased amount of Islamist terrorism in recent years with attacks
on non-Muslims, bloggers, atheists, secular activists and even LGBT
campaigners. But this is the first concerted attack on foreigners.
The
American victim has been named as Abinta Kabir, from Miami, Florida.
Also
among the dead were Faraaz Hossain, who attended business school at Emory
University in Atlanta, and Tarushi Jain, 19, who studied at University of
California's Berkeley campus.
Kabir,
a sophomore at Emory's Oxford campus, was an American citizen, while Hossain
was born in Bangladesh and Jain was of Indian origin.
A
spokesman said: 'Emory University has learned that two Emory students, Abinta
Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were among those taken hostage and murdered by
terrorists yesterday in the attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
'Abinta,
who was from Miami, was a rising sophomore at Emory’s Oxford College.
'Faraaz,
who was from Dhaka, was a graduate of Oxford College and a student at the university’s
Goizueta Business School.
The Italian foreign ministry confirmed
the dead as: Adele Puglisi, Marco Tondat, Claudia Maria D'Antona, Nadia
Benedetti, Vincenzo D'Allestro, Maria Rivoli, Cristian Rossi, Claudio Cappelli,
and Simona Monti.
Ms
Monti's brother, Father Luca Monti, a priest in southern Italy, said he hoped
'this experience of martyrdom for my family and the blood of my sister Simona
can help contribute to building a more just and brotherly world.'
Agnese
Barolo, who lives in Dhaka, said one of the dead was the wife of an Italian
businessman, who was killed by a machete.
She
was found by her husband after he spent all night hiding behind a tree outside
the cafe while the gunmen were inside.
Bangladeshi
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed declared two days of mourning for the
victims to take place on Sunday and Monday.
Islam
is a religion of peace. Stop killing in the name of the religion
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh PM
She
also thanked all those who had expressed their solidarity with Bangladesh, and
vowed that terrorism would be exterminated at all costs.
Sheikh
Hasina added: 'Islam is a religion of peace. Stop killing in the name of the
religion. Please stop tarnishing our noble religion...I implore you to
come back to the rightful path and uphold the pride of Islam.'
Army
Brigadier General Naim Asraf Chowdhury said: 'Most of (the hostages) were
killed mercilessly by sharp weapons last night.'
He
said his son told him the terrorists 'did not hit people who could recite
verses from the Koran. The others were tortured'.
He
added: 'The gunmen asked everyone inside to recite from the Koran. Those who
recited were spared. The gunmen even gave them meals last night.'
Elite Bangladeshi commandos stormed the
building after siege of more than 12 hours, freeing some 13 hostages, in
addition to another eight who manged to flee during the siege. Six of the
terrorists were shot dead and one was arrested at the scene.
The
ISIS media wing has claimed responsibility for the attack which was launched on
the final Friday of Ramadan, as millions of Muslims prepare to celebrate the
Eid holiday. The final ten days of Ramadan are the most solemn in the
Islamic calendar.
Two
police officers were killed, including a local police station chief, Mohammed
Salahuddin, who was earlier injured in the shoot-out.
ISIS
has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to SITE Intelligence
Group, which monitors jihadist activity.
SITE
said ISIS' Amaq News Agency reported ISIS terrorists had carried out the
attack.
One
member of staff from the restaurant who managed to escape, Sumon Reza, told
Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star: 'They blasted several
crude bombs, causing wide-scale panic among everyone. I managed to flee
during this confusion.'
He
added: 'They came armed with pistols, swords and bombs. They shouted Allahu
Akbar [God is great] before blasting the bombs.'
ISIS
claimed 24 people had been killed and a further 40 were wounded in the attack.
Images of the carnage were distributed on social media channels with links to
the jihadi terror organisation.
Bangladeshi
officials have said 20 have died with a number of others in a critical
condition in hospital.
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