On the night of 1 July 2016, at 21:20 local time, five militants took hostages and opened fire on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan Thana. The assailants entered the bakery with crude bombs, machetes, pistols, and took several dozen hostages. In the immediate response, while Dhaka Metropolitan Police tried to regain control of the bakery, two police officers were shot dead by the assailants.
Gulshan 2. Bangladeshi joint forces restricted the movement in area at the time of Operation Thunderbolt during the hostage crisis at the area's Holey Artisan Bakery. Police had earlier beefed up security around the Dhaka Westin based on intelligence reports of a forthcoming attack.
Dipto Shopoth
Ambassador's from various different nations to Bangladesh paying tribute to the victims at the 5th anniversary of the attack
Dhaka Metropolitan Police
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is the unit of Bangladesh Police responsible for law enforcement in the metropolis of Dhaka, the national capital and most populous city in Bangladesh. The DMP is the largest police force unit in Bangladesh. At present the DMP commissioner is Habibur Rahman.
Asaduzzaman Mia, the 33rd and longest-serving commissioner
