Twenty civilians, all of them foreign nationals, were killed together with two police officers in an attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, the military said Saturday, according to dpa. Bangladeshi troops stormed the restaurant and killed six terrorists who had taken people hostage, before recovering the bodies of 20 civilians, the army's press wing said. The military's spokesman, Brigadier Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhry of Bangladesh Army, didn't mention the nationalities of the victims, but in Rome, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi confirmed that Italians were among the victims. Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said a 19-year-old Indian girl had died in the attack. Foreign ministry sources said 11 Italians were inside the restaurant when it was attacked, and that one managed to escape.
