Gunmen take 20 hostages in Dhaka, kill two

Dhaka: Two persons — an Italian and an Argentinian — were killed after a number of gunmen, said to be eight to nine, attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital late Friday and reportedly took 20 hostages.
At least four injured police officials were injured after police exchanged fire with the gunmen attacked the restaurant popular with foreigners.
DMP Additional Commissioner Sheikh Maruf Hasan confirmed that one of the policeman injured during fire exchange was dead. He said the officer was declared dead by doctors at United Hospital in Gulshan.
“Banani Police Station officer in-charge Md Salauddin has died from injuries he received in an attack by gunmen on a restaurant at Dhaka’s diplomatic zone Gulshan,” a report in bdnews24.com said. (IANS)