A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death on Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack in 2015, police said.
"Attackers wearing masks hacked Ananta Bijoy Das with machetes in Sylhet city at around 8.30 am on Tuesday morning. We have learnt that he was a writer," deputy commissioner of Sylhet police Faisal Mahmud said.
Imran Sarker, head of a Bangladeshi bloggers' association said that Das was "an atheist and wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona," a website which used to be moderated by Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US citizen who was himself hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in February.
Third secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death in Bangladesh - IBNLive
"Attackers wearing masks hacked Ananta Bijoy Das with machetes in Sylhet city at around 8.30 am on Tuesday morning. We have learnt that he was a writer," deputy commissioner of Sylhet police Faisal Mahmud said.
Imran Sarker, head of a Bangladeshi bloggers' association said that Das was "an atheist and wrote blogs for Mukto-Mona," a website which used to be moderated by Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-born US citizen who was himself hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in February.
Third secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das hacked to death in Bangladesh - IBNLive
