Bangladeshi police were today investigating an apparent jihadist video threatening more attacks in this South Asian nation.
The video shows three Bengali-speaking men and included praise for last week's deadly attack on a restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic district.
"We have seen the footage and the experts are examining it," police spokesperson Masudur Rahman said.
The footage shows the young men speaking while standing by a busy road in what the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist threats, said was Raqqah, Syria, the capital of the Islamic State.
The first of the three men addressed the government of Bangladesh and its employees.
"How come you support a system like democracy, which goes against Islam? Don't you know democracy is a system where laws are made by man despite Allah announcing that he holds the power of enacting every law," said the man.
"(The attacks) you see in Bangladesh will be repeated, repeated and repeated until syariah law is established," the man said.
Another man in the video praised the attack that suspected Islamists carried out last week on the Holey Artisan Bakery restaurant in Dhaka, which killed 20 civilians.
Nine of the victims were Italian, seven Japanese, one Indian, two Bangladeshi and one American. Two policemen were also killed.
Death toll in Baghdad rises to 250
Meanwhile, in Baghdad, the death toll from a car bombing in the Iraqi capital at the weekend has risen to at least 250, an Iraqi Health Ministry source told dpa today.
Some critically injured victims died in hospital, the source said, while several more bodies were recovered yesterday from the site of the attack.
The bomb went off about 1am Sunday (6am in Malaysia) in Baghdad's central district of Karada.
At the time, families were shopping for presents for the Eid festival at the end of Ramadan, and restaurants were crowded for the pre-dawn meal in preparation for a day of fasting.
More than 300 people were wounded.
The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack. In a statement circulated online by the IS supporters, which dpa could not verify, it claimed that a suicide bomber targeted Shiites.
- dpa
