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Bangladesh police detained a college student and claimed to have found some “important evidence” in connection with the brutal killing of two gay rights activists at an apartment in the national capital.

“We have detained a college student last night for questioning,” a police spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after the machete-wielding killers hacked to death USAID staff Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Mahbub Tonoy, a university student.

Senior Assistant Police Commissioner Shibli Noman said that police found a bag used by the assailants which appeared as “important evidence” in investigating the case.

“Police ASI Momtaz Ahmed chased the killers and managed to snatch a bag from them as they were fleeing the scene --- during the scuffle the officer was also injured,” Noman said.

One police official said they found several items including a mobile phone in the bag. But no-one from the law-enforcing agency would give further details.

Mannan, a cousin to former foreign minister Dipu Moni, also edited ‘Roopban’, the first magazine in Bangladesh that advocates the gay rights.


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