The deaths in the militant attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh
were at once random, and not so random. The 20 hostages who died in
the siege had reasons to be in the developing South Asian
nation.
They were construction consultants from Japan, working on a
Japanese government-funded infrastructure project.
They were Italian businesspeople in textiles, a major industry
in a country that is a center for low-cost production.
They were three students from American universities who had ties
to Bangladesh.
Their lives intersected on a Friday night at the western-style
restaurant at Holey Artisan Bakery, a popular hangout for the
relatively well-heeled in the Gulshan diplomatic enclave in Dhaka,
the capital of Bangladesh.
By Saturday morning, after security forces stormed the
restaurant to end a 10-hour siege, all of them had died in the
attack.
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