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Third blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh

DHAKA: A blogger was hacked to death by assailants using machetes in Bangladesh today, the third attack in less than three months on a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation.

Ananta Bijoy Das, a blogger who advocated secularism, was attacked by four assailants in northeastern Sylhet district on Tuesday morning, senior police official Mohammad Rahamatullah told Reuters. Rahamatullah said Das was a 33-year-old banker.--REUTERS

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