Bangladesh says 3 men funded deadly Dhaka restaurant attack
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A counterterrorism official says Bangladesh has discovered who funded the July 1 attack in which a group of assailants tortured and killed 20 hostages at a restaurant in Dhaka.
The police counterterrorism chief, Monirul Islam, says the $101,606 in financing came from three Bangladeshis, including a pediatrician who fled with his family to Syria to join the Islamic State.
Islam on Tuesday identified the other financiers as a retired army major who donated his pension and savings and a man who donated proceeds from a Dhaka apartment sale. Both were killed in police raids. Islam said the three belonged to the banned militant group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, or JMB.
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The IS claimed the responsibility for the July 1 attack, but Bangladesh's government insists the JMB was behind it.