Briton sent to jail after 16-day remand over deadly Dhaka attack case

A British national who has been shown arrested in connection with the deadly attack at a Spanish cafe in Bangladesh capital Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan last month was sent to jail Monday on completion of his 16-day remand.

Metropolitan Magistrate Ahsan Habib passed the order after Hasnat Karim, a British-Bangladeshi man and a former North South University teacher, was produced before the court Monday.

Hasnat was arrested on Aug. 3 on suspicion of having links with the Gulshan attackers.

The Briton was the first person to be shown arrested in the Gulshan terror case.

The whereabouts of the Spanish cafe attack survivor, Karim, remained a mystery in the aftermath of Bangladesh's first-ever hostage crisis on July 1 in which 18 foreigners were killed.

Responsibility for the Gulshan attack has been claimed by the Islamic State group, an assertion rejected by the authorities, who blamed "homegrown" terrorists for the incident. Six of the gunmen were killed while one was captured and detained alive, but he later died in hospital.

Source : XINHUA