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| Gunmen take some 20 hostages in Dhaka diplomatic quarter, Bangladesh - reports | |
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| Gunmen have attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Friday, according to police and witness reports. | |
| There are “reports of shooting and hostage situation,” the US embassy in Bangladesh has tweeted. | |
| Bangladeshi police exchanged fire with armed men at a Dhaka restaurant popular with foreigners, Reuters reported. | |
| At least 20 people, most of them foreigners, have been taken hostage, according to local media citing witnesses. Several police officials have been injured. | |
| The attack was carried out by a group of at least nine people, according to local media. They entered the restaurant at around 9:20pm local time and reportedly opened fire and set off explosions. A kitchen worker who managed to escape the building said the attackers chanted “Allahu Akbar.” | |
| “They blasted several crude bombs, causing wide-scale panic among everyone. I managed to flee during this confusion,” he said, according to Hindustan Times. | |
| The site was quickly cordoned off by a large number of police officers and personnel of the Rapid Action Battalion. | |
| The targeted area of Gulshan is a neighborhood in the capital city of Dhaka that hosts many nongovernmental organizations and embassies, including that of the US. | |
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