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BREAKING NEWS: Police locked in a shoot-out with gunmen who shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they take hostages including foreigners at restaurant in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka
Up to nine gunmen entered, opened fire and hurled makeshift bombs
Gunmen armed with ‘pistols, swords and bombs’, according to a witness
Worker who escaped reported gunmen shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they fired
Restaurant in city’s diplomatic quarter and popular with foreign nationals
Several foreigners are among being held hostage inside, said police chief
One police officer injured in the attack has reportedly been declared deadBy Imogen Calderwood For Mailonline and Agencies, 1 July 2016
Police are locked in a deadly shoot-out with gunmen at a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.
As many as nine gunmen entered the Holey Artisan restaurant and opened fire, unleashing at least 50 shots and hurling makeshift bombs.
The attackers are reportedly holding around 20 people hostage at gunpoint inside the Spanish restaurant, including foreigners, in the upmarket Gulshan area.
Police are preparing heavily-armoured vehicles in an attempt to storm the premises, which is near to a hospital, and rescue those held inside.
One police officer, who was earlier injured in the shoot-out, has been declared dead according to a top official at Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Several foreigners have been confirmed to be among those held hostage inside the restaurant, after as many as nine gunmen ‘armed with pistols, swords and bombs’
One member of staff from the restaurant who managed to escape 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 [Allah is greater (than your god)] before blasting the bombs.’
The staff member claimed an Argentinian and an Italian are among those being held hostage, however this has not yet been confirmed.
Another witness, who lives near to the restaurant, said he could hear gunfire and it ‘looked quite bad’.
The US Embassy in Dhaka said on its Twitter feed there were ‘reports of shooting and hostage situation’.
It warned people in the area to ‘please shelter in place and monitor news’.
The US State Department said that it was too early to say who was involved or what the motivation might be, but it confirmed that all Americans working at the US mission there had been accounted for.
The restaurant is said to be popular with foreigners, and early reports indicate that there are several among those being held hostage inside (file image inside the restaurant – no indication those pictured are involved)
‘We have accounted for all Americans working for the chief of mission authority,’ State Department spokesman John Kirby told a press briefing.
He said the situation was ‘very fluid, very live’.
Benazir Ahmed, director general of the elite anti-crime force Rapid Action Battalion or RAB, told reporters at 6.20pm GMT that security forces were working to save the lives of the people trapped inside.
‘Some derailed youths have entered the restaurant and launched the attack. We have talked to some of the people who fled the restaurant after the attack,’ he said.
‘We want to resolve this peacefully. We are trying to talk to the attackers, we want to listen to them about what they want.
One witness, a staff member who escaped the restaurant, said the gunmen shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they launched the attack
‘Some of our people have been injured. Our first priority is to save the lives of the people trapped inside.’
He would not confirm how many people were trapped inside the restaurant.
The Washington-based Overseas Security Advisory Council has tweeted that it is monitoring the situation.
It said: ‘If in Dhaka, continue to shelter in place. Monitor local media and follow instructions of local authorities.’
The shooting is reported to have started at around 4.20pm GMT – 9.20pm local time.
The Holey Artisan restaurant is near the Nordic Club, where expatriates of Nordic nations gather, and the Qatar embassy.
Bangladesh has seen a series of attacks, mostly using machetes, targeting bloggers, atheists and religious minorities.
The shoot-out follows the murder of a Hindu temple worker on Friday morning, who was hacked to death in Bangladesh’s southwestern district of Jhenaidah by suspected Islamic militants.
Shyamananda Das was killed by three men on a motorcycle in an early morning attack as he walked on a highway adjacent to his temple.
Police said no group claimed responsibility of the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of recent murders of religious minorities by suspected homegrown Islamists.
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80 Comments
7 years ago
Once again, the “Religion of Peace” accomplishing what does best. Killing and blowing people and things up. It is truly not the time to judge these people, rather it is time to help them meet their judgment day and let God decide!
7 years ago
Can I please have my “No religion condones this type of violence” speech? Please? come on Mr President! Lets do it again!
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
That would be nice, but the “global warming is the greatest threat” hasn’t been trotted out for a while. Can we get both?
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
ok. Global warming too! But..?? Is it too late for the “Islam is peace stuff”??
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
O no, it is never too late for the cartoon. “Prophet Pig” is a favourite.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Forget Nuclear weapons. Drop Bacon bits all over their mosques, and countries for that matter
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
Run the offal from pig slaughter houses through a blender, then spray on every place contaminated by islam.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Better to let it ferment a week or so before spraying,..The “aroma” will warn infidels so they can avoid the contaminated places.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Pork is expensive ….but so are many of our smart bombs…Here is an idea that has been suggested before and it would help the pig farmer and our economy.
Load our ships and planes with pigs pigs and more pigs.Drop them from planes fire them from ships guns and even land based rocketes, Into all if isis strongholds and then while they are cleaning up all that lard….ATTACK! Oh No…the animal lovers would go on a rampage…but they do eat pork chops don’t they?
Maybe a stupid idea but we need to do something drastic and quick, but with the apologist in Chief and muslim lover in charge…..Nothing is going to happen.
7 years ago
Reply to
Guest
Until there is a “driver” for change, the only change will be islamification of America.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
There was an article about doing this sort of thing in airports and other strategic locations to keep the bastards at bay.
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
Try bacon grease rained down in droplets. They’ll never get it off everything – the mac-muslim weapon.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I used to love the cartoon prophet pig. He was a pedophile and had crooked teeth (in 1400 there were no dentists) prophet pig liked small girls and the rest. But the cartoon has to be made still, however there is a book what tells you all about prophet pig it is called koran.
7 years ago
Reply to
joker
How can their allah be great because we infidels can prevent muslims from entering heaven by just burying their bodies with pig skin or blood?
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
I like the ” Lets not rush to judgement before our investigation” one, hahaha
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
Never too late, pislam is as peaceful as the local mafia. If you have an IQ lower than 80 you will be a muzzrat
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Send in the polar bears with assault weapons to stop the dirty rotten ramadans. I haven’t heard yet but I’m sure there’s another stampede due this year with at least a few hundred holy to be trampled for some slight or another – allah willing.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Welcome to your first Ramadan Bombathon. Ever notice how the enemedia ignores all the islamic atrocities committed during Ramadan?
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
In honour of ramadan they respectfully maintain a polite silence whenever islam is atrocious. The rest o the year they pretend it never happened.
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
sadly misunderstanding of islam is everywhere. universities need mandatory courses of islam and sharia to educate the people about the true islam. there are already millions of muslims in the USA and everybody must do their part for coexistance
7 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
Exactly. The leader of ISIS holds a PHD in Islamic Studies, a Masters degree in Quran recitation, and even ‘HE, misunderstands THE TRUE ISLAM! (if we could just let the moderate muslims speak out agains the Global Jihad, and Stop silencing their voices…..?? OH WAIT, these muther fuckers have had over 80 years in our free countries, and NEVER SPEAK OUT AGAINS ISLAMIC JIHAD – why is that?
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
The strange thing is that the leader of IS is still alive. Just kill him and everybody around him.
7 years ago
Reply to
joker
There in lies the problem Joker……There are many around him who obummer believes to be the innocent or to put it militarily…. collsterals as in collateral damage …isis hides within a civilian population so obummer does not want to be called a war monger killing so called innocent people…and I suppose he figures if we just go in guns blazing killing everything in sight we would be no better than they are…That’s what a real president would think before taking action but the real president would listen to his General’s and make a sure and accurate decision and weigh every thing and most likely take real military action…collsteral damage or not…Besides…thry are dead civilians anyway. If the civilians try to leave isis will.kill them and if they stay there I’d say good chance thry will be killed in an attack. But we do not have a real president do we…isis has no problem killing innocent civilians and they are doing plenty of that. So that should be taken into consideration when planning an attack on isis but this president is not a real president so nothing will happen and isis will continue their rampage using proxy fighters.
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
Doctorates and Master’s degrees in islam, are not printed on sheep skin, two ply for the degree, three ply if awarded with honours.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The final exam will be simple: “Kill all the Jews, Hindu’s, Christians, Taoists, Buddists, Atheists, and you get an “A” !
7 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
Sadly I must demur. We do not ‘misunderstand’ Islam or Sharia. We ‘understand’ it all too well. It, and its practitioners are not compatible with western civilization, values, mores, folkways, customs or practices. Assimilate or leave.
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
He just might be right about that: no religion would condone it, but a brutal political system would!
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
Let’s not forget “who we are”, “shared values”, and “the kind of country we want to be”.
7 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
The Pope has taken his turn re: slaughter of the 20 hostages : ” An offense against God and humanity ” . Past time for the civilized world to get on the same page; stepping – up the offensive to stamp out the ISIS vermin . Let’s stop wringing our hands and ring the bell for freedom.
7 years ago
As usual………….it will have nothing to do with islam.
7 years ago
Reply to
Logic PrObe
Yes, the magical guns and bombs were brought to life and jumped into the hands of the moon cult’s inbred illiterate emissaries of piss.
7 years ago
The US State Department said that it was too early to say who was involved or what the motivation might be, (EXCEPT IT IS CERTAIN IT IS NOT ISLAM) but it confirmed that all Americans working at the US mission there had been accounted for.
7 years ago
Why isn’t the civilized world keeping these animals in their own zoo and not allowing them to co mingle with the rest of us. Issue a travel warning to everyone and then let none of them into the countries of the west. What are these politicians getting in return? I know this one happened over there but still, they should not be allowed contact with anyone other than their own people.
7 years ago
These attacks are orchestrated zionist agents. No sane Muslim has time to engage in these attacks within this holy month.
7 years ago
Reply to
Sheikh
You’re sure drinking the Kool-aid there pally.
When they tell you who they are and why they do it, and you deny it, you either are a liar, in denial, or a complete idiot.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The only sheep in this picture, is the one he has in his bunk, right next to that thing he Sheikhs..
7 years ago
Reply to
Sheikh
Is that all you got, boy?
Hell, if there was a huge earthquake in Israel, you’d say it was the will of Allah. If it wiped out Saudia Arabia and Iran, you’d say the Zionists did it.
Toolbag.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
As a term, “Bullspit” can work better conversationally, as it is hard to distinguish from the other term intended.
7 years ago
Reply to
Sheikh
This is what happens to a human brain when cousins marry cousins for forty generations.
7 years ago
Reply to
Sheikh
Same old excrement being espoused by a Muslim. Let me guess. Your reaction post, an Islamic terrorist atrocity in Europe – ‘ 1) they’re not Muslim ( YES they are) 2) the KKK and edl do not represent white people (flawed because Muslims aren’t an ethnic group and the aforementioned aren’t terrorist groups) 3) Isis kill Muslims – YES and non Muslims!!! Common denominator? Muslims!!! Everywhere it travels, Islam breeds intolerance and causes death and misery. Accept it.
7 years ago
Reply to
Sheikh
Oh yeah Sheikh. . .let’s blame the jews. By the way, “sane muslim” is obviously an oxymoron.
7 years ago
And at the same time in the US, a bunch of Pussified citizens and an organization that shouldn’t even be allowed in the US due to their terror ties, CAIR, are criticizing Trump because he didn’t disagree with an audience member who asked could the rag heads at TSA be replaced with real US citizens?
F*ck I slam, F*ck CAIR, F*ck Mus scums and especially f*ck public enemy #1 Obumma
7 years ago
This is islam, this is what the democrats think America needs.
7 years ago
those gd methodists sure get around.
7 years ago
pedophile prophet and his piglike minions.
7 years ago
sadly misunderstanding of islam is everywhere. universities need mandatory courses of islam and sharia to educate the people about the true islam
7 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
Just exactly what are we misunderstanding about sharia law, the head of cair in the US said that sharia law is higher than US law and US law doesn’t apply to them, please explain
7 years ago
One of our local news dweebs led off with “Bangladesh terrorist screams God is Great.” No, he didn’t scream “God is Great.” He screamed “Allahu Akbar.” But saying that would lead everyone to think the terrorist is Muslim and the media-crities can’t have that.
7 years ago
Reply to
Anneke9
The lame stream media is going broke, with newspapers and other outlets in serious financial trouble. The solution, lie some more and drive customers away. It is to rejoice when a newspaper goes broke and shuts down.
7 years ago
Cursed is the name of their filthy prophet Mohammad. May all his followers burn in hell with him
7 years ago
Obama loves “the religion of peace.” You kill enough people and eventually there will be peace.
7 years ago
‘We have accounted for all Americans working for the chief of mission authority,’ State Department spokesman John Kirby told a press briefing. Imagine hillary’s relief.
7 years ago
The JV team strikes again. But no worries, John Kerry says they’re on the run.
7 years ago
What kind of idiot travels to an islamic state, especially one that was involved in a genocide of ~2.5 million Hindus?
7 years ago
Just as I have said on this site, multifold ‘times’ – Bengalis are amongst the most vile scum, I have encountered in the UK, bar none. No hyperbole! They deny the holocaust ever took place, believe women should not walk on the streets alone, and are incredibly homophobic.
7 years ago
No, they are just following the footsteps of their worthless fake prophet
7 years ago
“Shelter in place” is Newspeak for the more accurate description of “lockdown”. As with Benghazi, notice there is no mention of military assets ready to effect a rescue mission.
7 years ago
Cant wait until the “celebration” is over
7 years ago
Obama White House sending a heartfelt hashtag to Bangladeshi’s victims in 4,.. 3,.. 2,.. !!!
7 years ago
Something to consider is whether any effort has been made to profile particular behaviors to gauge the possibility of there being any that are predictive of these terror incidents’ participants. As an example, there is what is called the “serial killer’s trifecta” which says all three or any combination of two behaviors which include animal cruelty, pyromania, and bed wetting past the age of five has some validity. Why do we only examine traits in the bloody aftermath?
After all, the FBI has a criminal profiling division dedicated to narrowing suspects down to predictive attributes.
7 years ago
Allah can’t protect these filthy Muslims from entering heaven when we burn their bodies in pig oil
7 years ago
I would love to see the terrorists all have a final checkout (of this world) celebration at the end of “ram a goat month with the pedophile “and all blow themselves up together in stadiums full of islamists across the mideast and wherever the roaches crawl. They could synchronize it so they would all go out together. That would make my July 4th and be cause for celebration worldwide i’m sure. It would make a great HBO documentary “Holy Bomadan” and a good Batman sequel as well.
7 years ago
It would seem that foreigners going to these islamist places on their stinky month of brain masturbation would be left alone as possible recruits to their cult but it only shows that these degenerate inbreds will kill anyone even their own.
