Bangladesh police turn to Facebook to seek identities of café attackers

The police in Bangladesh have resorted to checking the last Facebook posts of the militants who attacked a restaurant in Dhaka, killing 20 people including foreigners.

Security operatives are trying to confirm the names of Islamist militants who attacked the café by checking whether the identification of some by friends on social media is correct, officials said on Monday.

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Islamic State posted pictures of five fighters it said were involved in Friday’s killings in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone, most of the victims from Italy, Japan, India and the United States.

“Let the people of the crusader countries know that there is no safety for them as long as their aircraft are killing Muslims,” it said in a statement.

Posts on Facebook identified three of the five, whose grinning images appeared in front of a black flag, as Nibras Islam, Rohan Imtiaz and Meer Saameh Mubasheer.

 

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