Bangladesh police identify dead militant

Towsif Hossain was from Dhaka’s leafy Dhanmondi neighbourhood and was missing since February. Like Nibras Islam, one of the five young and affluent cafe attackers who was killed after a 12-hour siege on July 2, Hossain had also attended the Kuala Lumpur  campus of Australia’s prestigious Monash University, the head of the Dhaka police counter-terrorism unit told reporters. 

The other militant killed on Saturday morning was Fazle Rabbi from the Jessore district northwest of Dhaka, who was missing from last April, counter-terrorism head Monirul Islam said. Rabbi’s family has fled, police said. 

The cafe attack was claimed by IS and killed 22 people, mostly foreigners. It alarmed security and political experts because of the profile of the perpetrators.