DHAKA, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Police in Bangladesh capital Dhaka said Monday that they have identified the third Dhaka terror mastermind.
A Dhaka Metropolitan Police official who preferred to be unnamed told Xinhua that the suspected mastermind is Nurul Islam Marjan, a student of Chittagong University in southeastern Bangladesh.
He said photographs taken by the militants during the attack were sent to Marjan who maintained communication with the attackers and the other two masterminds.
The attack was carried out on July 1 in Spanish Holey Artisan cafe in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan.
He said Marjan is a member of the banned local Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) which has been blamed for the terror attack that killed 22 people, including 18 foreigners and two police officers.
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