Gulshan attack mastermind 'Rajib Gandhi' held

Police arrested an alleged mastermind of the Gulshan terror attack from Tangail district early Saturday.

The arrestee was identified as Jahangir Alam alias Rajib alias Gandhi.

Manirul Islam, Additional Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and chief of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, said tipped off, a CTTC team conducted a drive in Tangail and arrested Gandhi in the dead of night.

Details of the drive will be disclosed at a press briefing later, Manirul added.

Twenty hostages, including 17 foreign nationals, were killed by militants at Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area of the capital on July 1 last.

Later on the following day, five of attackers and one suspected associate of the attackers were killed during a commando operation inside the café.

With UNB inputs