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