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Gunmen stormed a crowded restaurant popular with foreigners in the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night, apparently taking diners hostage and sparking a firefight with police in which at least one officer was killed, officials said.
The attackers entered a Spanish restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter and opened fire at around 9:20pm (1320 GMT), police said.
Mohammed Suhrawardy, a businessman who lives nearby told the Daily Star newspaper his family heard screams of "Allahu Akbar" (God is the Greatest) followed by several loud blasts.
"Police immediately rushed to the place and fired back. An unknown number of people are still inside but we cannot confirm whether they are held hostage," Gulshan area police officer Sayedur Rahman told AFP.
The US State Department said it appeared to be a hostage situation, and a senior Bangladeshi government official confirmed to AFP there were several people inside the restaurant.
White House says Obama briefed on hostage situation in Bangladesh President Barack Obama has been briefed about the attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.
"The president asked to be kept informed as the situation develops," a White House official said.
"I heard that one Italian national who works at the restaurant and several other people were still inside the restaurant," said the official on condition of anonymity.
Footage emerges from Bangladesh's capital, where gunmen have taken hostages at a restaurant popular with foreigners https://t.co/u2X6BymNhlPolice said one officer had been killed in the firefight and another three people including two police had been seriously injured.
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