Gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with expatriates in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday and took hostages, including two Sri Lankans.
Deputy Foreign Minister Hrasha de Silva said that officials in the Sri Lankan mission in Dhaka were in touch with the Bangladesh police about the two individuals suspected to be among the hostages.
Eight to nine gunmen attacked the Holey Artisan restaurant in the upscale Gulshan area of Dhaka, and police were preparing to start an operation to rescue the hostages, said Benjir Ahmed, the chief of Bangladesh’s special police force.
