The News (New Glasgow)

Police kill three, including Canadian

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NEW DELHI – Police in Bangladesh killed three suspected militants Saturday, including a man they identified as a Canadian accused of mastermind­ing a deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month. Top counterter­rorism official Monirul Islam said police raided a two-storey house in Narayangan­j district near Dhaka and killed the suspects early Saturday. The dead included Tamim Chowdhury, a Bangladesh­iborn Canadian, who police believe was one of two mastermind­s of the July 1 attack on a popular restaurant in Dhaka that left 20 people dead. The militants belonged to the banned group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB, Bangladesh’s police chief A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque told reporters. The Canadian Press

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