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Dhaka cafe attack terrorist arrested in Bangladesh

<span style="color: #222222;">In Bangladesh, a top terrorist, who allegedly supplied arms, explosives and money to the terrorists who carried out 2016 terror attack on a cafe in Dhaka has been arrested.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion,RAB, spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan said in Dhaka that the terrorist was arrested from a bus in Gazipur city in the outskirts of the capital today and has been identified as Mamunur Rashid Ripon. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The RAB claimed that he is the top financier and weapon supplier of banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which carried out the attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery, an upmarket cafe in Dhaka on July 1, 2016 that killed 22 people, including a 19-year-old Indian girl. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Eighteen foreigners were among those shot and hacked to death by five terrorists in the 10-hour standoff at the cafe before military commandos stormed the building and freed some two dozen other people. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The government launched a nationwide crackdown against militants immediately after the attack, killing nearly 100 alleged terrorists in gunfights including several top JMB leaders.</span>

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