Question: Name the operation launched by Bangladesh Armed Forces to rescue hostages inside the Holey Artisan Bakery during terrorist attack in Dhaka?
(a) ‘Operation Black Thunder’
(b) ‘Operation Thunderbolt’
(c) ‘Operation Blue Star’
(d) ‘Operation Bolt’
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 1 July 2016 six militants opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery located in Dhaka, Capital city of Bangladesh in Gulshan -an affluent area with many embassies in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- After the attack, all the people taken hostage by militants in the restaurant, among hostages almost all were foreigners.
- The operation to rescue hostages inside the Holey Artisan Bakery was launched by the Bangladesh Armed Forces named ‘Thunderbolt’.
- The operation was led by the 1st Para-Commando Battalion of Bangladesh.
- The terrorist killed 20 hostages because they could not recite a verse from the Quran including Tarishi Jain, a 19-year-old female student of the University of California, Berkeley, of Indian nationality.
- In “Operation Thunderbolt” six terrorist were killed and a terrorist was caught alive.
- 13 hostages were rescued in the operation.
- Bangladesh’s home ministry said in a statement that the attack was carried out by country grown terrorist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen.
- The home ministry also claimed that Pakistan’s Intelligence agency ISI is also involved.But ISIS claimed responsibility for the incident.
Reference:
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/07/02/chronology-of-gulshan-cafe-crisis
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/07/02/bangladesh-pm-hasina-says-13-hostages-rescued-alive-from-gulshan-cafe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/01/gunmen-attack-restaurant-in-diplomatic-quarter-of-bangladeshi-ca/