Police: ‘Important Breakthrough’ Arrest Made in Bangladesh

An Islamist militant who is suspected of attacking a publisher last year was arrested late Wednesday, in what police described as an important breakthrough in their investigation into the recurrent horrific attacks plaguing Bangladesh. Sumon Hossain Patwari, 20, is accused of being involved with a brutal attack on publisher Ahmed Rashid Tutul and two writers who were shot and stabbed by three men in the office of the Shudhdhoswar publishing house in Dhaka last October. Police say...

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