BREAKING NEWS: Gunmen Kill 4 Officers, Take Dozens Hostage in Bangladesh

[moonshaz]

Attackers stormed a restaurant Friday night in Bangladesh's capital, taking about 40 people within the diplomatic enclave hostage and exchanging gunfire with police, killing four security personnel, officials said.

A team of seven or eight attackers entered the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka's Gulshan area around 9:20 p.m. local time (11:20 a.m. ET

Comments

[eveofrevolution]

Re: Mod Note

[moonshaz]

Arrrgh, I did give it the Bangladesh tag--more than once! For some reason, LJ was literally deleting tags as I was adding others; I thought I caught them all, but obviously not. I fixed it and added a note about the videos.

[eveofrevolution]

[maynardsong]

Anyone of the general Western public going to declare solidarity with Bangladesh?

[chaya]

Can they even find it on a map?

[moonshaz]

I can, but then I'm kind of a geography nerd!

[chaya]

It was more of a rhetorical question, but okay

[koushiba]

I pray the hostages will stay safe.

[natyanayaki]

ENOUGH WITH THE DAMN KILLING MURDERS I AM SO SICK OF IT.

[tabaqui]

Jesus. Fucking horrible. I don't know if this kind of shite is happening more or just *seeming* to happen more because of the internet and instant news.

These poor people.