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Bangladesh: Blogger hacked to death in Dhaka

by IBNS 06 Apr 2016, 10:00 pm

Dhaka, Apr 7 (IBNS) The incessant killings of secular bloggers in Bangladesh continud as yet another blogger was hacked to death in broad daylight by suspected Islamist militants for expressing secular views, in Dhaka on Wednesday, according to reports.

Nazimuddin Samad, a law student, was hacked with machetes and later shot at a traffic junction, BBC reported.

He was reportedly an organiser of 'Ganajagran Manch', a secular campaigning group.

Samad was believed to be a secular person as he wrote 'I have no religion' in his Facebook profile under religious views.