We've reached that podcast moment for this week's edition of assignment and the voice you're going to hear a lot of in the next half hour

belongs to the Bangladesh journalist Moorshad Ali Khan. Now Now Moishad and I go back a long way, but we joined forces once

again to bring you the inside story of what happened at the Holy Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on the night of the 1st of July?

This is the biggest ever terrorist attack in Bangladesh and I spend the night on 1st of July here by the Holy Bakery and Linda and I went

along talking to people who lived those moments. The tales are really shocking and terrifying,

but it's also a story of hope, not despair all alone.

There are tales of people who survived that night,

who leave to tell us these stories. What's it like to experience a terror attack? Too often ordinary people become entangled in violence not of their own making. That's what happened on the

1st of July 2016 when Islamist militants stormed the Holy Artisan Bakery and

restaurant in Bangladesh. I'm Linda Presley and for assignment on the BBC World Service,

together with local journalist and translator, Moorshirale Khan,

we track down some of those who live through that terrible night in one of Dhaka's most upmarket districts.

This is the most expensive place in the poshest.

Well yeah and we're looking just through the gates here and you can just see an open veranda

that looks right out on the lake here.

Anybody would love to sit here and have a cup of tea. And on Friday the 1st of July last year just before the festival

of Ed, that's probably what 20 year old Ferraazayez Hussein planned to do with the Holy

Artisan with two close friends.

Abinta Kabir was a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin,

studying at the same American university as Faraz.

Terees Jane was an 18-year- old Indian and a student in California.

All three had been at high school together in Dhaka.

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