DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladeshi troops stormed an upscale restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter on Saturday, ending an 11-hour standoff with gunmen who had detonated explosives and taken hostages.
The authorities said 20 hostages, including many foreigners, had been killed on Friday night. Most were “brutally killed” with sharp weapons, the military said.
A kitchen worker who had escaped said the attackers were armed with pistols, swords and bombs.
Thirteen hostages were rescued in the raid on Saturday morning, and six attackers were killed, the Bangladeshi military said. A seventh attacker was arrested.
The identities and nationalities of the attackers were not released.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, in which at least 30 people were wounded, mostly from shrapnel. Two police officers were killed in the initial standoff.
“Islamic State commandos attack a restaurant frequented by foreigners in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh,” reported Amaq, an information outlet linked to the Islamic State.
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