UNB, Dhaka :
Sammilita Sangskritik Jote held a candle-lit vigil at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Sunday in memory of those killed in the attack on a Spanish restaurant in the city’s Gulshan area.
Witnesses said around 100 leaders and activists of the cultural body lighted the candles there around 7:30pm through singing a Rabindranath song.
Jote president Golam Kuddus, its general secretary Hasan Arif and actor Mamunur Rashid were,
among others, present on the occasion.
Earlier on Friday evening, seven gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery and opened fire and took around 40 people, including restaurant staff and guests-both locals and foreigners-hostage.
Twenty hostages-nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, one Bangladeshi-born American and two Bangladeshis-were killed in the terror attack at the restaurant.
Besides, two senior police officers-Banani Police Station officer-in-charge Salauddin Ahmed Khan and Detective Branch assistant commissioner Robiul Islam-were killed as they tried to rescue the hostages.
Thirteen people, including three foreigners, were rescued while 20 bodies of the hostages were recovered from the restaurant after a successful operation codenamed ‘Thunderbolt’.
Six of the seven gunmen were killed and one suspected militant was arrested during the drive.
Sammilita Sangskritik Jote held a candle-lit vigil at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Sunday in memory of those killed in the attack on a Spanish restaurant in the city’s Gulshan area.
Witnesses said around 100 leaders and activists of the cultural body lighted the candles there around 7:30pm through singing a Rabindranath song.
Jote president Golam Kuddus, its general secretary Hasan Arif and actor Mamunur Rashid were,
among others, present on the occasion.
Earlier on Friday evening, seven gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery and opened fire and took around 40 people, including restaurant staff and guests-both locals and foreigners-hostage.
Twenty hostages-nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, one Bangladeshi-born American and two Bangladeshis-were killed in the terror attack at the restaurant.
Besides, two senior police officers-Banani Police Station officer-in-charge Salauddin Ahmed Khan and Detective Branch assistant commissioner Robiul Islam-were killed as they tried to rescue the hostages.
Thirteen people, including three foreigners, were rescued while 20 bodies of the hostages were recovered from the restaurant after a successful operation codenamed ‘Thunderbolt’.
Six of the seven gunmen were killed and one suspected militant was arrested during the drive.
