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at the very end. the bangladeshi army says troops shot and killed six gunmen. earlier witnesses saw at least one person taken way by ambulance. but we don't know who or how they were hurt. they were taken at the very end when commandos moved in. the attackers initially stormed the popular cafe friday night at about 8:45 there in dhaka's diplomatic corridor. isis has said it's behind what's happened. but u.s. officials believe it may have been al qaeda. we're fwierwaiting for the army brief us with more in the next half hour. andrew stevens has been following developments from hong kong and hearing from other countries helping give us information because like we said, this was a diplomatic area. andrew? >> that's right. pieces of the jigsaw are starting to fall in into place, natalie. as to the hard facts about how hostages were there, how many gunmen were there.

and at this stage, we still can't confirm hard numbers on that. it has been reported pretty much through the past 14 hours or so that the number of gunmen was between six and eight. now the bangladeshi army has confirmed that six gunmen were killed when the holey artisan bakery was stormed about 12 hours into the siege. and they also confirmed that some 14 hostages had been rescued. 14 of a possible 20. that's a majority of the hostages. we don't know the condition, we don't know if and how they were injured, any of the hostages. we can tell you that the sri lankan high commission has been tweeting saying that two of their nationals were among the 14 freed, and they are unharmed. that's according to an official from the sri lankan high commission who actually met the two hostages who had been freed. we understand that there are japanese nationals involved.

the japanese prime minister says there is a high possibility that japanese nationals are involved. but at this stage we don't know how many and whether any were among those who had actually been rescued by the army. it's interesting. there is doubt, some doubt about who claimed responsibility for this, whether this was in fact an isis attack or whether it's an al qaeda attack. the fact here is the bangladesh hasn't seen anything on this scale ever before. six or eight gunmen, basically assaulting a restaurant, taking hostages, a siege situation. there has been terror attacks, frequent terror attacks in bangladesh in the past two years or so, or going back even longer. but they have been much more along the lines of attacks on individuals, individuals have been targeted from minority religions, from the gay community, secular bloggers, all have been targeted and in many

cases, they were killed by being hacked to death in a single target, if you like. but this was completely different. so the bangladesh military we're dealing and police are dealing in something completely different. to assault that bakery, and we're being told that up to 100 commandos were involved in that assault. around about 8:00 in the morning or so. so in broad daylight to assault that restaurant and to be able to retrieve 14 hostages alive from perhaps 20 really does seem to be an extraordinary result given the fact that if this was isis, the operation, the m.o., if you like, is to take as many lives as they can. and these are invariably suicide attacks, natalie. >> all right. look at the pictures inside this restaurant. there are stairs. i'm not sure how big it was. i know they had a terrorist outside, a grassy area. there is no telling what in the

world was going on inside this restaurant. but yes, a remarkable ending that people got out. what about the early on, how did this first -- how did this first happen? when were these gunmen first spotted before they went into this restaurant? and tell us about what ensued then, because there were two police officers killed then, and a lot of people injured. >> yeah, that's right. what we know is that the attack happened between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. on friday night in gulshan, which is a very upmarket part of dhaka. it is in the diplomatic quarter. it is the actual holey artisan bakery. it's a bakery by day and an eatery by night. it is very popular amongst both the expat community living around that area and also local bangladeshis, particularly young bangladeshis appear to gravitate towards it. so it was a popular area.

at some time between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., as i said between six and eight gunmen stormed into that restaurant shouting allahu akbar, god is great and immediately seized the hostages inside. some of the staff members at the restaurant did manage to escape, including one who was furnishing the details of how many diners were at the time and how many attack herself saw. once the attackers were inside the police responded. there was a firefight during which two police were killed. and reports of up to 40 other people injured. now we're also reports the attackers were armed with assault weapons and grenades, and perhaps other types of explosive devices. we don't know for sure. but it was a much more sophisticated attack than we have seen in previous terror attacks in bangladesh. so they went in there. they knew what they were doing.

they repelled a police attempt to get in early on in the siege. the police then withdrew. the area was cordoned off. and then the siege basically was a stalemate for the next 12 hours or so. we understand that there were attempts made by the bangladeshis to mediate, to negotiate with the terrorists. but they didn't get very far at all. if they even established contact. but we're led to believe there was no attempt by the gunmen to make any demands for anything. basically, it appeared that they had gone in there. they had no intention of coming out alive. and the hostages were in a very, very grim situation indeed. so after 12 hours, they made -- police made the decision just early daylight to actually storm the building. and as we know now, it was certainly relatively very, very successful in the 14 hostages survived with their lives. >> and the video we've just been seeing of people in the streets

and these armored vehicles moving in, we had just started seeing this, was it andrew, what about two, three hours ago? there had been a news blackout and it was very hard to get any information. >> yeah, that's right. perhaps not surprising. in a live situation like that, you do not want your local television channels sort of beaming exactly what the police are doing from the site because that could easily be watched by the people from inside the building. so yes, there was a news blackout. we did see the pictures of what looked like armored personnel carriers and moving troops around. that's probably more to the point they needed to establish a cordon around the area, completely lock it down rather than actually using that sort of heavy weaponry in response to any sort of storming of the building. and certainly we've been speaking over the last few hours to several eyewitnesses who say they heard gunshots repeatedly. they heard explosions. be they couldn't see it.

they couldn't get close now to see it. they were getting their information, they were sort of hearing these firefights and getting their information from the police who had been stationed around the streets who were getting the information from the front line, if you will. so that's how they were getting that information. but certainly the explosions, there were two explosions quite a long time after about maybe 20, 30 minutes after the initial firefight involving the troops storming the building. and taking over basically engaging the gunmen. there was a real -- there was a period of calm and then a couple of explosions. and that appears to have been basically detonated explosions, detonated by the authorities as they swept the building clean, as they secured it and made sure there was no booby-traps or there was no munitions which could have gone off. they're basically securing the area. and then soon after that, the bangladesh army declared the all clear, the operation had been complete. >> all right.

14 hostages freed. six terrorists killed. and according to the prime minister and the eyewitness we talked with earlier, one terrorist was captured alive. so that perhaps will bring them some information, if that's true. >> just on that point, natalie, i just think we do need to be careful about this, because we heard this from an eyewitness who said that he had been told that there were five gunmen killed. he had been told by local police five gunmen killed. one had been taken hostage and two were unaccounted for. these numbers seem to be quite fluid at the moment. so whether or not there actually has been one of the gunmen taken alive, that's still very much unclear at this stage. >> all right, andrew stevens live in hong kong for us. thanks again, andrew. we want to talk again with international security director for the asia-pacific foundation. he joins us live from tokyo. and sajan, it is really

remarkable that a -- how this has ended. no one perhaps felt it was going to end like this with hostages being freed and gunmen being killed. perhaps one of them being captured, not confirmed. but what do you make of this that this has had somewhat of a positive ending after this being, of course, a treschl event for bangladesh and an unprecedented event for this country? >> natalie, it is positive to some extent. the information that has come out, we need to await proper official confirmation from the authorities, which i think will happen soon. but the other aspect is of course that most siege operations do end very badly with high fatality numbers. we'll have to wait and see what the official numbers are. whichever way we look at this, this is still the biggest terrorism event that bangladesh has experienced.

prior to this it was mostly targeted assassination by local groups. this one seems to be more coordinated with multiple gunmen. that is something now the bangladeshi authorities are going to have to look at. because even though the incident may not have resulted in high fatalities, it has set a precedent, and one that may be repeated in the future. >> absolutely. because it was pretty much understood this was event that was likely to happen. however, bangladesh wouldn't quite connect with that, wouldn't agree that this was perhaps a threat for the country. why is that? >> there was a degree of denial by the bangladeshi government that they had a terrorism problem. that's not unusual there are other countries in asia and africa that try and downplay the terrorist threat that they have, because they somehow feel that it hurts them economically, politically, socially. in the case of bangladesh itself, they don't just have a problem with groups that are affiliated to isis, but also to

affiliations with al qaeda in the indian subcontinents. you have a two-track terrorist progress taking place inside the country where they often compete with each other as to who can kill more. most have been targeted assassination, as i mentioned, killing blogger, academic, members of the religious minority community, police people. but this time we've seen a much larger operation. and it will be important to find out which actor was involved, whether it was affiliated to isis or affiliated to al qaeda. >> rights. an expert in law enforcement i talked with earlier said of the al qaeda-isis battle to be dominant in the indian subcontinent, that al qaeda was more like myspace and isis was more like facebook. and as far as their power these days in that al qaeda was underfunded. >> well, certainly al qaeda has

lost ground to isis globally in terms of recruitment, appeal, propaganda, finances. but in south asia, al qaeda is mounting a resurgence. they're trying to recapture the headline and the focus of recruits. it's in bangladesh ultimately where isis and al qaeda are effectively competing with each other for recruits. in a journal produced by isis that they came out last year shortly after the paris attacks, there was several articles how isis wants to focus on bangladesh, how they see it as a priority and how they were going to increase the tempo of operations. and equally aqis has come out with statements this year and talked about bangladesh as well. both groups compete in various parts of the world -- egypt, syria. and bangladesh is definitely another example of that. >> and al qaeda more so wants to

target westerners. and isis for the most part doesn't care as much if muslims get called up in a rampage such as this and would lose their lives. for example, most of the victims there at the airport in istanbul were muslim. >> very much so in the sense that isis deliberately will kill muslims. they don't have any problem in that. in fact, they relish it. al qaeda by and large, if muslims die in one of their operations it's seen as collateral damage. so isis will focus on muslims and westerners. al qaeda will focus predominantly on westerners. but these aren't hard and fast rules. often there are many shades of gray in between. and especially when you're dealing with affiliated groups. because it's not that isis or al qaeda operate directly inside of bangladesh, but through their

affiliates. isis are connected to the mujahedeen bangladesh group and you have the team affiliated to al qaeda. and both those groups carry out attacks on behalf of the outfits they claim to represent. >> and it is unfortunately a new day for the country of bangladesh after a situation like this. sajjan gohel, thanks again, a terrorism expert talking with us from tokyo. we'll have more of our breaking news right after this. you're watching live coverage here at cnn.

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and welcome back. the bangladeshi army says a siege at a cafe in dhaka is over, and that 14 hostages have been rescued. sri lanka says two of its nationals were among those rescued. gunmen stormed a popular restaurant on friday evening in the diplomatic corridor. the army says six gunmen were

killed. the attackers held as many as 20 hostages and killed two police officers in a gun battle. isis claims responsibility for the attack, but u.s. officials doubt that claim thinking it sounds more like an al qaeda operation. we just don't know at this point. but it is over. and with us now from london on skype to discuss the bigger picture, what does this mean for bangladesh is the south asia director of human rights watch. thank you for joining us. i want to ask you, this was a large operation. we don't know who was behind it. but prior to this in bangladesh, we had just seen these sporadic attacks on individuals, non-muslims who were speaking out against extremism. so this is perhaps a game-changer for this country? >> yes, indeed. you know, the thing is that for

the last several years now, these attacks began, and then they've gradually been scaling up. so you know, there were a couple of last year. and then the frequency of these attacks have just been picking up. just yet in the morning of the latest attack, there was a hindu temple that was attack and a priest was hacked to death. so this has been scaling up. the groups are more and more devoted it appears. and part of the problem is the government did not seem to take it seriously when these -- when these targeting first started. >> and there were absolutely gruesome hacking of people that are just speaking out and sharing their thoughts on freedom of speech. and it is apparently just something that these extremists just can't take, that people can say what they want.

what else do you think is behind these attacks, and is social media to play behind them? >> well, these attacks first started because -- because at least according to the statements that were attributed to the attackers, because they were opposed to any form of secular belief. that is how it first began. called them atheists. that's how it started. since then it spread. it was religious minorities. it was gay rights activists. it's just gone on and on. and one of the problems is that the state, the bangladesh government initially kept recommending to people that they must exercise self-censorship. they must exercise restraint so that people don't get upset about their religion or their religious beliefs. but the truth is these groups were looking clearly for attention. and now they've got it.

they started with the gay rights activist. then they killed a police officer's wife. and now they attack this cafe. if the intention was to draw attention to their beliefs, then now they have succeeded. >> how much is bangladesh is the government there attuned to the bigger situation here that the crisis that their country faces, just like so many others? and how much cooperation do they have with the west? how much do they need the west? how is human rights watch working in that country, if at all? >> we work quite a bit in the country. and yes, bangladesh certainly needs assistance. part of the problem has been that the bangladesh government, the present government is elected unopposed because the opposition boycotted the election. since then because of this

complicated political standoff between the two main political party, what has happened is that these attacks, two were blamed on what the prime minister kept describing as terrorism by the opposition. and in fact when we said that no, there is difference between violence to protests, which are also part objected to and these kind of attacks, the government did not quite take it seriously. and therefore these groups don't exist, al qaeda doesn't exist and isis doesn't. and it's possible that none of these groups exist. right now as we can see from around the world, these attacks are happening. people are claiming all kinds of affiliation. we do not know enough. but what we do know is these are dangerous groups, and their way of thinking has to be challenged instead of just imagining that this is some sort of an opposition ploy, which is the mistake that the department

made. >> when we know the government rounded up thousands of people that they felt might be a threat, extremists. what are your thoughts on that action? >> you know, the bloggers and the religious groups were being attacked, religious minorities were being attacked earlier. and there was in fact a list out which listed the number of writers and publishers who these groups apparently thought were needed to be punished for their views. the government tended to react to be indulgent of these threats by saying that some of the views expressed by these writers could be considered unpleasant for a number of people of the muslim faith and recommended that the writers hold back and exercise restraint. it is only after the two gay rights activists were killed that brought a lot of attention

to this issue. and then the fact that the wife of a police officer was also killed that the government decided to take this more seriously. and at this point in time, instead of trying to identify the perpetrators to figure out who exactly is behind them, the government rounded up literally just rounded up people off the streets, 15,000 people, which is no way to try to solve these cases. these cases need time. they need to be tracked and figured out. people on the streets is not going to be the answer. it's going to make people angrier. and certainly it doesn't look gad for human rights challenges. >> we thank you so much for your thoughts, meenakshi ganguly with the london human rights watch. thank you. and we'll have more breaking news coverage right after this. stay with us. i am a lot of things. i am her best friend. i am her ally.

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you're watching cnn live coverage. i'm natalie allen from atlanta. and if you're just joining us, it has been a remarkable ending to a long, long siege there at a cafe in dhaka in bangladesh. it is now over after more than 14 hours. gunmen finally in the light of day stormed the restaurant, a popular restaurant, excuse me, the evening on friday night in the diplomatic corridor. the attackers holding as many as 20 hostages. and they killed two police officers early on in a gun battle before police finally raided a cafe a few hours ago to bring all of this to an end.

an army general says that hostages have been rescued, and that six gunmen were killed. isis claimed responsibility for the attack, but that has not been confirmed. u.s. officials are doubting that claim. so i really don't know who was behind this. all we do know is hostages walked out alive when the commandos moved in. that looks like new video that we're seeing there. i'm not sure what it is. but let's go to cnn's andrew stevens. he has been bringing in these developments that have been coming in slowly, but we're finally getting them. hello to you, andrew. >> yeah, we are finally getting them, natalie. that vision we're looking at may well have been from the first firefight between the attackers and police just after they had stormed the restaurant last night. because there were something like 40 injuries and two police also lost their lives. at least that's what was being reported. i wanted to bring you up to date

on new information coming to us. this is from the bangladesh prime minister kasani who says there were 13 hostages were rescued. we have been quoting the number 14. that is from the bangladesh chief, a senior army spokesman for the military. but now the prime minister is saying that 13 people have been, quote, saved. and there have been -- there were six, six of the gunmen were killed on the spot. but one was captured. so they do have one of the gunmen in custody at the moment. the direct quote is from the prime minister is that we were able to save 13 people. we weren't able to save a few. a few are injured and they're in hospital. and of these terrorists, six died on the spot and one was captured. so she does say there has been fatalities amongst the hostages.

they couldn't save everybody, but they have saved she says 13 people. and that rescue mission really was the storming of the restaurant about 12 hours after the gunmen first entered the restaurant. and that storming saw some intense gunfire for about ten minutes, what we're being told followed by silence. we then started getting reports that hostages had been rescued. there were a couple of explosions following that. they seemed to be clearing out operations by the military, sweeping the area, securing the area. and now it's starting to get more information coming in. the prime minister saying now that the 13 hostages have been rescued. some sadly were not. six gunmen are dead and one has been captured. natalie? >> we should emphasize these numbers are fluid as we hear one thing a minute and then another. but been fairly consistent since this ended. and i guess we can't say enough, andrew, that during this long, long ordeal, and it was quiet

for so many hours. no one knew what was going on inside that restaurant other than perhaps the police who were monitoring it. but certainly, as this went on and on, no one perhaps felt that people would be rescued alive from this restaurant. it's just not what usually happens in these type of things. >> well, isis claimed responsibility very early during the siege, in fact. isis claimed that it was responsible for this, which did raise the eyebrows of the security community, because that is not particularly their style to claim responsibility so quickly, particularly in an ongoing operation. but if indeed it was isis or isis sympathizers, the m.o., sort of the way it's done in these sorts of attacks is they are invariably suicide attacks, and they are invariably aimed at taking as much human life as possible. so during that siege when there

was very, very little negotiation going on, authorities would try to negotiate with the gunman. the gunman apparently not interested in talking to them. so it didn't seem that they had any demands. and there was nothing that suggested they were taking the hostages in the hope of getting something in return. it did seem to -- it did appear that the lives of those hostages was in very grave peril indeed. and the authorities took that decision about 12 hours after the siege began to go in there. went in force. 100 commandos, we're told, were in the operation to storm the holey artisan restaurant. there was a period of intense gunfire. that's according to the head of the rapid response unit, or the deputy head of the rapid response unit which led that storming of the restaurant. there was intense gunfire followed by a period of calm. and then we started getting these reports of some hostages being alive. so yes, it is extraordinary if

you think of just how bleak it looked just a few hours ago, natalie. >> absolutely. andrew stevens for us there in hong kong. andrew, thank you. let's get more now on the aftermath of this attack and the security questions it does raise for bangladesh. steve moore is a law enforcement are contributor. he is retired from the fbi and he joins me live by skype from los angeles. steve, thanks for joining us. if indeed one gunman has been caught and is alive, how will that help in this investigation? >> well, that's a gold mine. they are going to exploit the information they get from this gunman in ways that -- it's just -- it's just a fabulous find. and he will tell the bangladeshis everything he knows about this. i can guarantee you that. and that is going to increase drastically the world's database on how al qaeda or isis, if they did this, operate.

>> and the fact that there were people rescued and the fact that as far as we know, we haven't heard any reports of all these commandos that went in getting injured, as you said earlier, just because 100 participated in it, doesn't mean they all were in that restaurant. they were backing each other up if they needed more. but it is truly a remarkable ending to something that normally you don't have terrorists sitting in wait. and the hostages alive. >> right. and, again, this is something that i am really fascinated to find out. you know, on a standard s.w.a.t. operation, a complicated thing you might have 50 people involved and only eight will initially make the entry. so they didn't have a huge number of people actually going in through the breaches. so i would really like to see how they did this. and i wonder if they used

diversions, if they used some kind of decoy, or if after 14 hours, you had fatigued terrorists who may not have even thought at the initial part of this were going the take hostages. i mean, if they're going in, they have to accept the fact that like the killers in istanbul, they might die within minutes. they may not have been planning nor have contingency plans for taking hostages. >> right. because from the surveillance video there in the airport, it seems like the terrorists were frustrated at one point they couldn't find more people people to kill. we saw that one running with his gun. but as far as this restaurant goes, it is fascinating. they are going in. they don't know where the hostages are presumably. they've had it surrounded and had some surveillance ongoing. but where the hostages were, where the terrorists were. did the terrorists have a

suicide invest on? they really were going in there with not knowing what they were going to come out with. >> right. and that is during those 14 hours, 13 or 14 hours that they were waiting, obviously they weren't waiting just sitting. they were doing everything they could to get information on what was going on inside the location. there are various ways of doing that that i probably wouldn't like to broadcast to everybody watching. but there are ways to find out some rudimentary information. they had the cafe owner, who i believe or a manager or something like that who actually got out. that person could give them the layout of the place and draw it for them. they could actually practice if they had the resources on a makeshift little floor plan. we used to do that a lot with

fbi s.w.a.t. so they didn't go in totally blind. and it is common for these teams to use a diversion going in. i didn't hear any information on diversionary flash-bangs, explosive devices, anything like that, like we heard the french use in paris. so, again, i want to see how they did this, and i want to see the type of -- the type of terrorists they were up against. >> right. you're right. the witnesses that we've been talking with in the neighborhood said they didn't hear anything like you describe. they only heard the gunfire. and then toward the very end, a couple of explosions, which we don't know what the genesis of that was. but they also waited until daylight. is that working in their advantage or disadvantage? >> well, generally it gives the -- it gives the defenders the terrorists inside an advantage of being able to see well.

it may be that for some tactical reason, the rab felt that it would be better to go in the daylight. one of the reasons might be that you had six terrorists who were now up -- you know that they didn't just set their alarm and go straight into the place. so likely they had been up 24 hours and waiting a longer period of time might have fatigued them, make them less alert. the fact that there weren't diversionary devices going off, or we didn't hear doors being blown in, at least that i've heard so far, might have been the type of attack where they were able to sneak in through some type of attic space, crawl space, something like this, and catch them unawares. >> well, it's actually a fascinating story. yes, when we learn more about it, we'll have to talk with you again. so you can analyze how they were able to do this. certainly this world has not

seen enough of endings like this with all these terrorist attacks. >> no. >> and it just continues to be so -- >> it was good one. >> yes, it certainly was. steve moore, thanks again, steve. and we'll have more for you right after this. calling all go-getters. all providers. all self-motivated self-starters. drive with uber and put a dollar sign in front of your odometer. like this guy. technically i'm a cook. sign up here. drive a few hours a day. make $300 a week. actually it's a little bit more than that. that's extra buy-you-stuff money. or buy-them-stuff money. calling all early risers, nine-to-fivers and night owls. with uber-a little drive goes a long way. start earning this week. go to uber.com/drivenow

welcome back to our breaking news. the bangladeshi army says a siege at a cafe in dhaka is over, and that 14 hostages have been rescued after 14 hours of

being held. sri lanka says two of its nationals were among those rescued. gunmen stormed the popular restaurant on friday evening. it's located in the diplomatic corridor. the attackers held as many as 20 hostages and killed two police officers in a gun battle in the early hours. police commandos later moved in to end the siege. the army says six gunmen were killed. isis claimed responsibility for this. but u.s. officials are doubting that claim, thinking it sounds more like an al qaeda operation. now for the latest on the terror attack in turkey this week. a u.s. congressman says a well-known terrorist from russia organized the attacks on istanbul's airport. one of the 43 victims was the chief of pediatrics at a tunisian military hospital and a professor of medicine.

for more on what we're learning about the attacks, here is senior international correspondent nima elgabar. >> reporter: the men who unleashed this attack on tuesday may now be known. two of the suicide bombers who carried out the plot are being named by turkey's state news agency. citing a prosecution source, it reports rakim bulgarov and vadim osmanov carried out the attacks. as for the man who directed the operation, u.s. officials tell cnn akhmed chtayev an isis lieutenant likely carried out the plot. >> he became one of the top lieutenants in the minister for war. >> chatayev is notorious with terror networks going by the nickname ahmed one-arm.

>> he was missing one arm, used that, reportedly used that fact to argue when he went to europe to get refugee status. he said i have been tortured by the russians. the u.s. placed him on the terrorist list just last year. but he has been around for a long time. >> reporter: investigators are digging in. trying to find out more about the men seen running through the terminals brandishing weapons and detonating suicide bombs. turkey's president today condemning their actions and vowing to fight. >> translator: terror and terrorists do not have religion, a nation, a motherland. we are going to fight them with our soldiers, with our police, and with our village guards. >> reporter: 24 people, including 15 foreigners have now been detained according to turkish state media. police are also asking local residents about the security image showing the three men believed to be suspects. turkish authorities told us they believe the three attackers

holed up for a month in an a apartment in a district in istanbul. the three men they say came directly from raqqah. as the investigation unfolds, families are burying their loved ones. he knew isis all too well. his son had reportedly joined the group as a medic last year. a family friend says bayoudh has been in istanbul to help negotiate his son's rescue from the terror group only to have extremists take his life instead. >> such losses for nothing. well, as families mourn those lost to attacks, the heartbreaking story of one of the youngest victims of the airport bombing, a palestinian girl who escaped with her life. she may not realize it, but her

mother is gone. >> reporter: 3-year-old rafi survived the horror of tuesday's attack. her mother nasreen did not. no one can explain what happened or where her mother. members of turkey's palestinian community are taking care of rafif, keeping her distract and smiling. her father can barely speak. he lost his wife. his friend hamad lost his wife too. hamad is still in hospital in critical condition. his 3-year-old son rayan is on life support. the two palestinian families arrived from saudi arabia where they lived for a short holiday in istanbul as they prepared to leave the airport, the terrorists struck. rafif was in her mother's arms when nasreen was shot dead. rafif was hit by shrapnel in her leg. >> translator: they can't say they came to fight the military and oppressors. they walked amongst us. they could see children. the family like so many here are muslim.

people who claim to be muslims with no mercy. i will teach my daughter not to hate, to love everyone. i will give her the best life, he says. on thursday night, marwan returned to the airport to put his wife's coffin on a plane. he led an islamic prayer for the dead. marwan had promised nasreen he would take her home to the palestinian territories to celebrate the palestinian festival next week with her family. instead they will gather to mourn her. cnn, istanbul. well, israel says its aircraft have targeted hamas sites in gaza after a rocket fired from the palestinian territory hit an israeli city near its border.

we're seeing video of the rocket strike now. citing government source, the jerusalem post reported the rocket hit an empty preschool. no physical injuries were reported, but the building sustained significant damage. the rocket attack followed israel sealing off parts of the west bank. the lockdown was in response to a series of attacks on israeli there's, including the stabbing death of a u.s.-israeli teen in a settlement as she slept. we'll have more on our breaking news coverage of the terror attack in dhaka, how it began and how it ended. more after this. y, your day is through. ♪ ♪ cause sealy's support is perfect for you. ♪ only the sealy hybrid has posturepedic technology to support you where you need it most. sealy. proud supporter of you.

recapping our top story this hour, bangladeshi commandos have ended a hostage drama as they stormed a restaurant in dhaka that had been targeted by attackers. the prime minister says 13 hostages were freed and the military says six gunmen were shot dead. the prime minister adds one attacker was captured. up to eight gunmen have been holding as many as 20 people inside the holey artisan bakery, a very popular bakery by day and a restaurant by night. it is in dhaka's diplomatic corridor, an upscale area of the city. and it's believed some of the hostages were foreigners. local news outlets and witnesses reported they heard explosions. those may have been part of security cleanup efforts as

officials cleared the building. the siege all started friday night in -- friday night there in bangladesh. and as the attackers lay siege to the cafe, two police officers were killed in a gun battle with police. 40 people were wounded. isis is claiming responsibility. but a u.s. official has told cnn al qaeda is also a possible culprit. andrew stevens has been following these developments for us from hong kong and joins me again live. and certainly there was loss of life in this ordeal. many people injured. but also somehow remarkably people rescued. andrew? >> yes, it does seem to be extraordinary, if you think back just a few hours to when the siege was at its height. the authorities could not negotiate, could not get a response we're being told from the attackers themselves. and isis is claiming responsibility.

it did look very, very grim indeed. and to have as the prime minister of bangladesh says 13 hostages saved is really quite remarkable. natalie, we're just getting more information on nationalities now. the prime minister of bangladesh spoke to the japanese prime minister shinzo abe. she told him there was one japanese national among those 13 who had been rescued. he is injured but his injuries are not life threatening. that's what we're hearing. but he was rescued from the restaurant. worryingly, perhaps, the man who was rescued was dining there the restaurant with seven other japanese when the attackers broke in, or came in with their guns and firing on friday evening. so there are seven other japanese who are still unaccounted for at the moment. the other nationalities we are

aware of are sri lankan, two sri lankan nationals were also rescued by the authorities. they are safe and well. the sri lankan high commission is tweeting that a senior official met with them and said they were both unhurt following their ordeal which is also remarkable, considering that the actual storming of that restaurant involved something like 100 commandos. that's what we've been told by the authorities. 100 commandos going in, following which was followed by a period of, quote, intense gunfire that is from the military as well. a period of perhaps ten minutes of intense gunfire. and from that we've still managed to see 13 hostages rescued from that situation. natalie? >> it will be fascinating once they release the details of this operation. andrew stevens for us, thank you once again from hong kong. earlier my colleague jonathan mann spoke with lee

leone lakhani. she has family in dhaka and knows the bake write this took place. >> they're also concerned about what this could mean to their everyday lives. will they be seeing more attacks like this. what will this mean for security. they've never had anything like this before. it's completely unprecedented. and the government has been very adamant that they don't have any al qaeda or isis or foreign extremist cells in the country. they've blamed previous attacks, targeted attacks in the past couple of years on local groups. but as we were hearing from your security expert, it doesn't matter whether they were local groups or foreign groups or groups inspired by foreign groups. at the end of the day, this attack was organized. it wasn't an organized gun attack. and it means that they have to, the government has to address that there is an extremist problem of some sort on the ground. and they have to deal with it

now, jonathan. >> and the target was such an unlikely one. the holey artisan bakery cafe. would anyone you know have ever felt threatened or in danger going to a place like that in dhaka? >> not until today. i'm sure from now on they would. and it is a high profile target. it's a bakery. after 6:00 p.m., it turns into a restaurant. it's got a very european feel. it's got a garden. coffee, espressos. it's a very -- it's very unusual for dhaka specifically. and it attracted a lot of people. and they're in the area, quite an affluent area, as we've been saying. lots of expats, lots of diplomats in the area. so no, it was a very popular area. but we can see why it would be a target, because it was quite high profile. you had high profile people who went there. it was a high profile neighborhood. and as we've been saying, it's a very densely populated city, jonathan. so anything that happens in a

cafe like that, which is high profile on its own, because of its customers and the area, and because it's in a diplomatic area, we can understand why it would be a target. but until today, no one would have suspected anything like this there on the ground, jonathan. >> what about security? obviously you can't make every restaurant or cafe in bangladesh secure. but what kind of security measures were in place around that neighborhood? and how much of a second look is that going to require now? >> you know, there wasn't security in the sense that you have roadblocks or anything like that in front of cafes and restaurants until now. the security had been stepped up recently because of the attacks we've seen in the past couple of years, especially since last september when we saw an attack an italian expat as well as a japanese citizen later on in the year as well. so the government has stepped up

security. and any way because it's a diplomatic area with lots of embassies around, there is a little bit more security than usual. but in terms of restaurants, shops, you wouldn't see, you know, roadblocks and police or anything like that in a very -- in a big way. but i suspect that may change going forward. >> and our news will continue right after this. caring for someone with alzheimer's means i am a lot of things. i am his sunshine. i am his advocate. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda xr to his current treatment for moderate to severe alzheimer's. it works differently. when added to another alzheimer's treatment, it may improve overall function and cognition. and may slow the worsening of symptoms for a while. vo: namenda xr doesn't change how the disease progresses. it shouldn't be taken by anyone allergic to memantine, or who's had a bad reaction to namenda xr or its ingredients.

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hello. i'm natalie allen live from cnn center in atlanta. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. we continue to bring you breaking news out of bangladesh. this is "cnn newsroom." the bangladeshi prime minister says a siege at a capital is over. here is what we have learned so far. the