The authorities issue what they term ‘highest alert’ on the Benapole border to stop killers of two foreigners from escaping the country.

US Ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says her country is working with the Bangladesh government to verify the alleged IS claims of killing two foreign nationals in Bangladesh last week.

The governments’ lack of good governance is to be blamed for the recent murders of the two foreign nationalities, a BNP spokesperson says.

Law enforcers work to find whether there is any link between the killings of two foreigners in the span of five days, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal says.

Five days into the killing of an Italian citizen in Dhaka, a Japanese national is gunned down in northern district of Rangpur. Five persons detained for interrogation.

Ultimately it was the killing of an Italian national in Dhaka by unknown perpetrators that is believed, within the BCB, to have led to Australia calling off their tour of Bangladesh.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police forms an 11-memebr police team to assist the investigation officer of Italian national killing case.

Ruling out the existence of militant outfit Islamic State in the country, Home Minister Kamal says both Bangladesh and Italy primarily agree that the militant outfit was not involved with killing of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella.

BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claims the government is trying to shift the blame for the murder of Italian national Cesare Tavella in Dhaka to others.

There is no justification of alert, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says expressing her surprise as some diplomatic missions in Dhaka issued the alert for their nationals following the murder of an Italian citizen in Dhaka.

Special police unit has been formed to investigate the murder of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella. He was shot thrice, autopsy report says.

EU Ambassador to Bangladesh and British High Commissioner condemned the killing of Italian aid worker and expressed dismay following the savage assassination of Cesare Tavella, employed by a Netherlands-based NGO, in Dhaka.

A day into murder of an Italian in Dhaka, US and Canada advise their citizens to limit their movement while in Bangladesh, saying they have info that militants may target foreigners here.