Dhaka: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia on Sunday said the masterminds of Gulshan café attack have been identified and they will be arrested soon.

‘Those behind the planning have been identified and now it’s a matter of time to arrest them. We’ve information about those involved in the attack and how they carried out the attack,’ said the DMP chief while talking to reporters at his office, reports UNB.

‘The law enforcement agencies are conducting drives based on some specific information, and they’ll be brought to book soon as some important evidence have been seized,’ he said.

On 1 July, gunmen stormed Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery and took guests and employees hostage. Twenty bodies, including nine of Italians and seven Japanese nationals, were recovered from the crime scene the following day.

The crisis ended following an army-led joint forces’ operation - Operation Thunderbolt. Two policemen and six militants, of whom one later appeared to be a staff of the Bakery who might have not been involved in the attack, were also killed.