Police on Tuesday offered Tk20 lakh bounty each for the capture of Bangladesh-Canadian man Tamim Chowdhury and Army-fired Major Zia for masterminding the recent militant incidents in the country. Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque announced the reward at a press briefing at the Police Headquarters in the capital. The bounty offer came in the wake of the two militant attacks–one at Holey Artisan Café in Dhaka’s Gulshan and another near Sholakia Eid congregation– that left 21 people killed and a special raid on a militant den in the city’s Kalaynpur last month where nine suspected militants were shot to death by law enforcers. Two police officers were also killed by militants at the 10-hour siege at the Gulshan restaurant and five militants and a café staff, on suspicion, were killed in a commando operation. The attack at Sholakia also left two police officers killed and law enforcers shot a suspected militant to death in the incident. — Dhaka, Aug 2 (UNB)
