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Bangladeshi Police Say Two Dhaka Terror Attack Suspects Detained

© AP PhotoBangladeshi security personnel stand guard near a restaurant that has reportedly been attacked by unidentified gunmen in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Bangladeshi security personnel stand guard near a restaurant that has reportedly been attacked by unidentified gunmen in Dhaka, Bangladesh - Sputnik International
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The Bangladeshi police have detained two men suspected of links to a terrorist attack in a Dhaka restaurant, Police Inspector General Shahidul Hoque said.

Bangladeshi security forces block the road after militants took hostages at a restaurant popular with foreigners in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, July 2, 2016 - Sputnik International
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NEW DELHI (Sputnik) — The Bangladeshi police have detained two men suspected of links to a terrorist attack in a Dhaka restaurant, Police Inspector General Shahidul Hoque said.

"One of them is in hospital, the other is in custody," Hoque saidб as quoted by Bangladesh's The Daily Star newspaper, adding that both of them were not in good physical condition.

On July 1, a group of armed terrorists took dozens hostage inside a cafe located in a diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. The attack has left 20 people, mostly foreigners, dead, while 13 hostages have been rescued by the country's security forces.

The Daesh terrorist group, outlawed in Russia, had initially claimed responsibility for the attack, however the Bangladeshi authorities later accused the homegrown group called Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh of the attack.

According to Hoque, those who criticize the security service for slow counterterrorism action should know that hostages were killed in the first 20 minutes of the attack, before the police stormed the building.

Earlier, the authorities of Bangladesh said that six jihadists had been killed during the storm of the cafe and one had been captured.

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