Monday, March 30, 2015

Another blogger has been hacked to death in Bangladesh

Bangladesh

A blogger has been hacked to death in Dhaka weeks after another writer was murdered in a similar attack in Bangladesh's capital city.



Police said Washiqur Rahman was killed by unidentified attackers near his home in the Begunbari area of the city on Monday morning, according to Bangladesh paper Prothom Alo


"He was brutally hacked to death this morning with big knives just 500 yards (460 metres) from his home at Dhaka's Begunbari area," Agence France-Presse quoted local police officer Wahidul Islam as saying


Bangladesh news website bdnews24 said the blogger, who was in his 20s and went by the alias Babu, was attacked at around 9:45 a.m. local time. Read more...


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