03 February 2017

News Story: IT expert linked to Dhaka cafe attack

BANGLADESHI security forces yesterday arrested a computer engineer said to run the social media operations for a group accused of mounting a deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe.

Ashfak-e-Azam and three other suspects were detained in a raid in the capital in which guns, explosives and ammunition were also seized, officials said.

“Azam is the information technology chief of the Sarwar-Tamim group,” said Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for the elite Rapid Action Battalion which carried out the raid.

Read the full story at ShanghaiDaily