Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Tuesday said the Gulshan cafe attackers, who killed 20 hostages, were members of different banned local militant outfits.
According to their confirmed identities, all the militants are Bangladeshi citizens, the home minister told journalists at a press briefing this afternoon, reported Star Online.
Dhaka Tribune reported Home Minister Kamal as saying the attackers have been identified by their parents. "Later parents identified five of them. They are all Bangladeshis and members of known terrorist groups," he said.
The minister said the law enforcement was suspecting that six of the bodies recovered after the joint forces stormed the restaurant were terrorists.
The minister did not, however, give out the names of the identified terrorists.
He said the government would bear treatment cost of all victims.
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The attack on the Dhaka cafe left 28 people dead, including 20 hostages, most of whom were foreigners.
The 12-hour-long hostage crisis had ended on Saturday morning after a two-hour-long assault by armed forces' commandos killing six gunmen and capturing one alive.
