A masked gang of four wielding
machetes has hacked a blogger to death in northeastern Bangladesh in the third
such deadly attack since the start of the year, police said.
Ananta Bijoy Das was killed in
the Subid Bazar area of Sylhet city as he walked to work at around 8:40am on
Tuesday morning, Sylhet Metropolitan Police Commissioner Kamrul Hasan stated.
Ananta Bijoy was said to be just
400-500 metres away from his office when he was intercepted by the gang with
sharp cutting weapons.
"What we found is that he
wrote about science and the evolution of the Soviet Union," he said,
adding that Das was also a bank employee.
Imran Sarker, head of a
Bangladeshi bloggers' association, said Ananta Bijoy was "an atheist who 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.
Roy, a Bangladesh-born US
citizen, known for this writing against religious fundamentalism, and wife
Rafida Ahmed, were attacked after a visit to a book fair at Dhaka University.
In March, blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu was hacked
to death in Bangladesh's capital by three men over alleged anti-Islamic
writings
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