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DHAKA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Police in Bangladesh capital Dhaka reported Tuesday that a DNA test has confirmed the identity of July 1 cafe attack that left 20 people, mostly foreigners, dead.
Masudur Rahman, a DHAKA Metropolitan Police (DMP) spokesman, told journalists that they have ascertained the identity of the cafe attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury with the DNA test results they received from Canada.
He said Chowdhury's DNA sample matched that of his father Shafi Ahmed Chowdhury.
His DNA sample was sent to Canada for test and verification, he added.
The suspected mastermind of the deadly cafe attack was killed in a police raid in Narayanganj on the outskirts of capital Dhaka on Aug. 27 morning.
A K M Shahidul Hoque, inspector general of Bangladesh Police, had then told Xinhua that "three militants including Chowdhury were killed during the special operation of the joint forces."
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the Dhaka cafe attack. But Bangladeshi authorities rejected the claim, saying operatives of a banned local militant outfit plotted the attack on the Spanish cafe in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan to boast about their existence.
Hundreds of JMB leaders and activists were rounded up while six top leaders of the group, including Shaikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged in 2007.
Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-Canadian suspected of heading the local banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and a sacked army official were named as the masterminds of the brutal attack on the cafe that left 20 hostages including 18 foreigners dead.
