Dhaka: Bangladeshi investigators who are investigating the Dhaka café attack have claimed the mastermind behind the massacre had plotted the terror strike seven-months ago and is now hiding in West Bengal of India.
According to a report in the Dhaka Tribune, investigators have found out that the Dhaka attack mastermind had left Bangladesh after planning the attack.
Twenty two people, including an Indian girl, were killed last week after suspected Islamic State terrorists stormed the cafe in the diplomatic zone in Dhaka.
Investigators said it was combined operation by Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Hizb ut-Tahrir and Ansarullah Bangla Team, all banned militant outfits. They had been elaborately planning the strike from the past seven months.
Probe agencies gathered these new details of the attack after probing suspects across the country but they have refused to disclose the name of the mastermind.
All the attackers involved in the dastardly strike were educated young men from affluent families, who appeared to have been radicalised recently.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday asked parents and authorities to remain vigilant about the movement of children to prevent them from getting radicalised.
"The people of the country are pious, but not bigots. I simply cannot understand why the children of these pious people, who are receiving education from reputed institutions, good schools and colleges and English medium ones, are turning bigots," she had said.
Her appeal came after it emerged that most of the hostage-takers in the cafe attack, had vanished several months ago.
Reiterating her resolve not to allow the emergence of militancy in the country, the prime minister said the government does not want any recurrence of the incidents happened recently.
"We won't allow any sort of emergence of militancy in the country, we don't want Bangladesh to be the land of militancy...we'll have to take some measurers keeping this view in mind," she asserted.
She said some unwarranted incidents have taken place in Bangladesh and it has to be dealt with strong hands.
