Key plotter of Dhaka terror attack arrested

Dhaka, July 28: A militant who planned last year’s deadly terror attack in Dhaka and and carried arms for it was arrested in the country’s tore district on Friday morning, the police said.
Abu Jara Rashed, who belongs to the banned Neo-JMB group and carried arms and gredes from Chapaiwabganj district to Dhaka, was the key plotter of the Holey Artisan Bakery attack, in the posh Gulshan area, that left 22 persons, mostly foreigners, dead on July 1 last year, Dhaka Tribune reported. Dhaka Police’s Counter Terrorism and Transtiol Crime unit chief Monirul Islam said Rashed alias ‘Rash’ is being brought to the capital for further interrogation. “We’re bringing him to Dhaka. He will be taken to court and shown arrested in the Dhaka cafe attack case,” he said. (IANS)