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In pictures: Hostage drama in Bangladesh

Twenty civilians and two police officers killed in attack at popular cafe in Dhaka.

Bangladesh [ Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera] — The hostage crisis began when a group of gunmen ran into the restaurant, which was packed with people waiting for tables [Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera]

Twenty civilians were killed, with many of them hacked to death, in a hostage-taking attack at a popular cafe in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka.

Bangladeshi troops stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s Gulshan area on Saturday morning to end the 10-hour standoff, killing six attackers and rescuing 13 hostages, officials said.

The attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group, also left at least two police officers dead and dozens wounded.

During the Operation Thunderbolt at Holey Artisan Bakery Detective Branch police taking the one terrorist alive with a white micro-bus to a secure location Dhaka, Bangladesh — A surviving suspected attacker taken by the police to a secure location [Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera]