Police take 11 BD workers from Sri Lanka into custody

Police have taken into custody 11 Bangladeshi workers of a Sri Lankan factory owned by a suicide bomber after Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels, reports bdnews24.com.

Police were questioning them after they returned on Friday, police's counterterrorism chief Monirul Islam said on Saturday.

They will be released if nothing suspicious is found in initial investigation, he said. "They took job at a factory despite having tourist visa. They don't have any criminal record."

They worked at the copper factory owned by Inshaf Ibrahim, a 33-year-old who detonated his explosive device at the busy breakfast buffet of the luxury Shangri-La hotel on April 21.

Sri Lanka has shut down the factory and sent back its foreign workers to their countries.