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A University of Toronto student taken hostage in Friday’s ISIL terror attack in Bangladesh had arrived on a flight from Canada that day and gone out for a meal after breaking his Ramadan fast when he was caught up in the brutal spree of torture and murder in a restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic district.

Tahmid Hasib Khan, 22, was later freed with a dozen other hostages in a risky commando raid, which killed all but one of the seven attackers, who by then had murdered 20 people, mainly Italians and Japanese.

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But now Khan is being detained by detectives, and interrogated about details of the ordeal, as Bangladeshi security services try to piece together what happened, amid eyewitness reports another hostage appeared unusually friendly and familiar with the attackers.

Khan is one of three former hostages now in police custody, another of whom is a British citizen of Bangladeshi origin. Another two have been interviewed and released.