Bangladesh: Key Gulshan restaurant attack mastermind arrested
The mastermind has been identified as Jahangir Alom alias Rajib alias Gandhi.
He has been sent to eight-day remand by a Bangladsesh court.
He was arrested on Friday night by security forces from Tangail.
Gandhi was arrested in Tangail last night in a drive conducted by members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, CTTC unit Chief Monirul Islam told The Daily Star
Militant attack at a restaurant in Dhaka on July 1 last year had left at least 20 hostages killed.
The victims included foreign nationals.
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