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Another blogger hacked to death in Dhaka

by IBNS 30 Mar 2015, 12:06 am

Dhaka, Mar 30 (IBNS): Three people hacked to death blogger Washiqur Rahman at Tejgaon Industrial area in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, media reports said.

Three killers carried out the attack and police caught two of them with machetes from the spot red handed, Biplob Kumar Sarkar, deputy commissioner of DMP (Tejgaon Zone), told The Daily Star.

The detained persons have been identified as  Jikul and Ariful Islam.

The third attacker, however, escaped from the spot.

He has been identified as Taher.

Washiqur Rahman  was attacked at around 9:45am.

The police took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where the doctors declared him dead.

Earlier, another blogger  Avijit Roy was killed in Dhaka.