Japan’s government officials just confirmed that seven Japanese nationals involved in a hostage attack in
Bangladesh are dead.
“Embassy officials confirmed that seven Japanese were
included in the bodies sent to hospital by the Bangladesh government,” Chief
Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a news conference in Tokyo.
The seven victims included five men and two women, Suga said,
adding that it was “extremely regrettable” that the terror attack ended up in
the fatalities.
The attackers, moving at the start of the Eid holiday,
held foreigners hostage at a restaurant, killing 20 before the Bangladesh troops rushed in. Many victims were hacked to death.
The Bangladesh military said most of the fatalities were
either Italian or Japanese. Thirteen hostages were rescued.
The Japanese government had earlier said one Japanese was
rescued but there were concerns about the fate of seven other Japanese
citizens.
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