Dhaka: Germany has condemned the horrid attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone at Gulshan in the strongest possible terms and mourned the victims and shared the grief of their relatives.

‘In these sad hours, my thoughts are with the people in Bangladesh as well as with our Italian, Japanese and Indian friends and all those were affected by this gruesome attack,’ said Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in a statement from Berlin on Saturday.

Once more conscienceless terrorists struck with sheer brutality and forced numerous human beings to die with them, he observed.

The Foreign Minister said the attack appears to have been aimed at foreigners in particular who gathered in a popular restaurant in Dhaka.

‘Should this be the case, it once more bears witness of the perverse logic of the terrorists, who, by means of murder and violence, try to divide entire societies and to destroy the peaceful togetherness of human beings of different origins and religions.’

He said the attack in Dhaka shows once more that terrorism constitutes a threat to the entire world and that the international community must oppose that terror in unity.

‘Only by united and persistent commitment of the international community will we be able to drive back, gradually, the Islamist terrorism and its ideology contemptuous of life,’ observed the German Foreign Minister.