Another Bangladeshi blogger killed in Dhaka because of his views on religion

Another Bangladeshi blogger fell to attacks by people who hated him for his views on religion. The group of men armed with machetes killed the secular activist at a crowded intersection in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. This has been confirmed by a police official and is the latest in a series of grisly attacks on intellectuals and bloggers who have written critically about Islamists on social media.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 8 April 2016.

According to witnesses, a group of clean-shaven men surrounded the 28-year-old law student at the state-run Jagannath University. He hailed from Sylhet, was a convinced atheist and used to express his views on Facebook. At the time of the attack, he was walking on the street and the time was around 8.30pm. The attackers slashed his head and then shot him when he fell to the ground.
The location was Wari, the area of Old Dhaka where the killing took place.
This stabbing was similar to a series of earlier attacks on bloggers that had been carried out last year, often in crowded public places. The leader of al-Qaida's branch in the Indian subcontinent had released a video taking credit for two of the killings in which the victims were labeled as "blasphemers". In October there were fatal attacks on two men who had published the works of atheist writers.


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