The women would be interrogated to determine if they had any link to the Dhaka cafe attack, he said. The cafe attack was one of the worst militant attacks ever in Bangladesh. Authorities have intensified a hunt for militants after five young men stormed the upmarket restaurant popular with foreigners on July 1. The government dismissed the claims and instead blamed domestic militant groups, but security experts say the scale and sophistication of the cafe assault suggested links to a trans-national network. The five militants were gunned down when security forces moved in.

Source: Standard Digital July 24, 2016 08:48 UTC