US issues travel alert to Bangladesh after restaurant attack

He said the people and the government were engaged in a fearless struggle against the evil forces of extremism and violence. “But we are looking into the option of a link between IS, Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islaami of Bangladesh”, Inu said.

Bangladeshi police have set up a special email address and urged people to report any suspicious online activities following last week’s attack.

“Two policemen, an attacker and a woman who was shot during the gunfight were killed”, national police spokesman A.K.M. Shahidur Rahman told AFP.

The country has been put on high alert during the Eid festival after last week’s terrorist attack. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims.

Obama also hoped for speedy recovery of the Japanese citizens who was injured when seven gunmen, who claimed to be from the Islamic State militant group, stormed the cafe and took more than 40 people hostage.

The latest incident comes after last week’s deadly attacks in Dhaka which killed 22 people mainly foreigners including an Indian girl.

It was not immediately clear how many bombs may have exploded in the district of Kishoreganj, north of the capital of Dhaka.

“The jihad in Bangladesh, the one you are witnessing now, is nothing like anything you have seen before”, said the first of the three Bangla-speaking men, who has been identified as Shafi, in his “message” for the Bangladesh government.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the government said domestic militants fighting to destabilize the secular government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and establish Islamic rule were responsible, the AP reported.

Police constable Jahurul Haque, 30, died in the blasts that occurred around 9 a.m., at Azimuddin School gate, a kilometre away from the prayer ground, bdnews24 reported.

Weapons recovered from the scene of the attack, close to where a quarter million people had congregated for Id prayers, included a pistol and machete.

Hasina also asked the parents who have lost their children to cooperate with police in finding the missing youth by providing them with photos and necessary information and not just sit back by filing a General Diary missing complaint.

Bangladesh has been reeling from a growing wave of attacks since the turn of the year, many of which have been claimed by the self-styled Islamic State group or an offshoot of the Al-Qaeda network.

Some reports said they had brought laptops, and ordered cafe workers to switch on the wifi.

On Wednesday, the ISIS terror group had released a threatening video where it said that the Bangladesh attack (Holey Artisan Bakery) was merely a glimpse and there would be a, ” repeat, repeat and repeat” until sharia had been established throughout the world.

Bangladeshi authorities recently detained several thousand people in a nationwide anti-terrorism drive.