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Banani Police OC Salahuddin was hit by a grenade when he tried to enter into the restaurant. He succumbed to the splinter wounds in nearby United Hospital.
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Detective Branch Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim also died from splinter wounds that night.
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With diners and employees trapped inside Gulshan's Holey Artisan Bakery, security personnel took up positions at the entrance to Road-79.
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The Rapid Action Battalion's bomb-disposal team arrived at the scene but was unable to start operation during the night.
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Hundreds of eager onlookers gathered along the police barricades placed at a safe distance from the scene.
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DB Police Assistant Commissioner Rabiul Karim’s father-in-law arrived at the scene at around 1:30am after hearing about his death.
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Navy para-commandos arrive around 3am, amid huge panic about what was happening inside.
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Police and RAB personnel surrounded the entire vicinity around Holey Artisan Bakery just before the crack of dawn.
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Former North South University teacher Hasnat Rezaul Karim, his wife and two sons, were among those trapped inside the cafe. Both his parents were waiting outside (second and third from the left.)
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Army commandos start Operation Thunderbolt to free the restaurant from the terror siege.
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Armoured vehicles storm Holey Artisan after tearing down one side of the restaurant's boundary wall.
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Soldiers start a rescue operation 11 hours after the siege of Holey Artisan Bakery began.
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Armoured vehicles leave the Holey Artisan premises at the end of a commando strike.
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Soldiers come out of Holey Artisan as their operation ends.
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Bodies of the dead were placed outside Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery at the end of commando mission.
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A Japanese woman was seen among foreign nationals who waited outside. Of the café's 20 victims, seven were Japanese.
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Patients at the Lake View Clinic adjacent to Holey Artisan Bakery were transferred from the facility at the end of the commando mission.
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Brig Gen Nayeem Ashfaque Chowdhury, director of military operations at Bangladesh Army, briefed the media at the army headquarters and officially confirmed the deaths of 20 people.
