September 29, 2026 03:03 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Vijay's TVK makes Bengal entry: First party office opens in Purba Bardhaman amid state's political shake-up | SRFTI clash erupts over ABGP event: Students allege assault; BJP calls it ‘ugly face of Leftists’ | 'Asif bhai gun nikal': 17-year-old's chilling account of men posing as cops raping her in South Delhi park | Indian passport rules changed: New validity, fees for children and adults explained | 'Terrorism by Pakistan will have consequences': India issues blunt warning at UNGA | Trouble for Gyanesh Kumar? Plea filed in Supreme Court seeking prosecution of CEC | Air India pilot suspended after failing alcohol test before Zurich-Delhi flight, weeks after marijuana case | 'Don't be selective, boycott all elections': CJP's Abhijeet Dipke's blunt message to Opposition | 'Resign by tomorrow or face nationwide protest from October 2': CJP's Abhijeet Dipke's fresh warning to Gyanesh Kumar | 'Locked' iPhone 17 at centre of mystery surrounding IIT Bombay student's death

Bangladesh : Holey Artisan Bakery mastermind and another JMB terrorist killed in encounter

| | Jan 06, 2017, at 06:37 pm
Dhaka, Jan 6 (IBNS) : One of the masterminds of last year's deadly Holey Artisan Bakery attack and one of his accomplices were killed in a gunfight with Bangladesh police in Dhaka early on Friday, local media reports said.

Reports quoted police as saying that  Nurul Islam Marzan, a neo JMB leader and his accomplice  were killed  when they locked in a ‘gun battle’ with a unit of counter-terrorism police near Mohammadpur Beribandh area in the capital.

The identity of Marzan's accomplice is yet to be known.


Marzan was identified as the mastermind of Holey Artisan attack on Jul 1, 2016, in which 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed.

His wife Afrin alias Prioti was among the three arrested from Azimpur by police on Sep 10.

Earlier, a Bangladeshi-Canadian, Tamim Chowdhury, and two others were killed in a police operation in Narayanganj on August 27.

According to police, Tamim was also one of the planners of the Holey Artisan attack.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.