Masked Attackers Kill Blogger in Bangladesh

Masked assailants armed with machetes killed a blogger Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh, police said, in the third such attack this year against a secular writer in the mostly Muslim country. Authorities said the attackers hacked Ananta Bijoy Das to death in Sylhet city. They did not identify any suspects or motive. Das wrote for a website called Mukto-Mona, which was formerly run by prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy. In late February, Roy, who was known for writing...

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