Bangladesh siege cafe cleared, 6 gunmen killed: police
 

DHAKA: Bangladesh security forces ended a siege Saturday at a cafe in Dhaka where dozens of diners were being held captive and shot dead six of the hostage-takers, officials said.

"The operation is over. The situation is completely under control," army spokesman Colonel Rashidul Hasan told AFP.

Tuhin Mohammad Masud, a commander of the elite Rapid Action Battalion which stormed the cafe, said there had been a number of casualties, including six hostage-takers.

"We have gunned down six of the terrorists. The main area that they have been occupying has been cleared," Masud told India´s Times **w television channel.

"Three of them are foreigners. Ten locals," Tuhin Mohammad Masud, a commander of the elite Rapid Action Battalion which stormed the cafe, told India´s Times **w television network.

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