Police: 7 to 8 more involved in Gulshan attack

They are the members of new Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), says Monirul Islam, chief of Dhaka police’s specialised counter terrorism unit, at the media centre of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Tuesday. Though the police had come to know their organisational names, their real names, addresses and whereabouts were yet to be identified, said Monirul. Earlier, regarding the New JMB, operated by Tamim, Monirul said: “There are two factions of the JMB [Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh]. Primarily, all the members joined the group under the leadership of Maulana Saidur Rahman [have been in jail since 2010], but some of them refused to accept him as their leader. So they formed a new group, now known as New JMB.” Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen Tamim masterminded the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks, while Marjan worked as a coordinator between the attackers and the mastermind during the events of July 1, according to the police.