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Gunmen attacked the cafe popular with expats and took those inside hostage, cafe worker Sumon Reza said.
Reza said he escaped as six to eight gunmen entered. About 20 people, some of them foreigners, were in the restaurant.
• A police officer in charge of a nearby station was shot dead, Maruf Hasan of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said. A second officer died from gunshot wounds, Detective Police Deputy Commissioner Sheikh Nazmul Alam said.
• Alam said 40 people were wounded, some by gunshots and others by shrapnel from explosive devices.
• Ataur Rahman, who was in his office about 200 meters from the restaurant, said he went to the street as he heard a series of gunshots. "I thought it might be an attack somewhere nearby by local thugs." He said people were racing for cover, saying gunmen were shouting "Allahu Akbar."
• Police are trying to find out the demands of the gunmen holding customers. The gunmen have not made any demands. The U.S. Embassy in Dhaka said it had accounted for all of the American citizens working under the chief of the mission authority.
The embassy and many other diplomatic missions are less than 1.5 kilometers (.9 miles) from the cafe.
SOURCE:http://edition.cnn.com/
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