Bangladesh Steps up Hunt for Missing Students After Café Siege

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered schools and universities to create and publish a list of absent students after Bangladesh’s worst terror strike was mounted by those educated in the country’s elite schools and colleges. She has also made an unusual appeal to parents and guardians to report missing youth and promised help in tracking them. Fears of the radicalization of young people through television and internet have also prompted authorities to clampdown on social media sites...

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