Jahangir Alam: July Attack and Arrest Procedures

jahangir alam: Details of the arrest procedures were not clear, according to CBC. The July 1 attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, a popular restaurant frequented by foreigners and wealthy Bangladeshis, left 20 hostages, including 17 foreigners, dead. The suspect, Jahangir Alam, was picked up on Friday night in a raid in Tangail district, 120 kilometres north of the capital, Dhaka, said Monirul Islam, head of the Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. U of T student cleared in deadly Bangladesh attack Five young men belonging to the domestic militant group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB, stormed the restaurant, sprayed bullets and threw grenades, and slaughtered the hostages. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, but the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has denied that the Sunni extremist group has any presence in the country. Bloody crackdown The attack by the group, which is thought to be inspired by ISIS militants, demonstrated the rising threat of radical Islam in the South Asian country governed by largely secular laws. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.