DHAKA, Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi blogger was killed in Bangladesh's northeastern Sylhet district Tuesday in the third such incident this year.
Police said that the deceased, Ananta Bijoy, worked as a bank official, but was also a writer and blogger.
"Four miscreants intercepted him on his way to work and attacked him with sharp weapons," Kamrul Hasan, Sylhet police commissioner, told Anadolu Agency. "He was severely injured and subsequently died."
Hasan added that the police force was trying to find the perpetrators.
Bijoy was listed as a contributor to the Bengali atheist blog, Mutko-Mona, which was founded by the slain Bangladeshi-American Avijit Roy, who was hacked to death in the capital Dhaka in February.
Bijoy had also been part of a movement that called for the prosecution and execution of political figures, mainly from the Jamaat-e-Islami party, who were accused of involvement in war crimes during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence.
Only a month after Roy's murder another secular blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was killed in Dhaka in March.
Al Qaeda's South Asia branch had claimed responsibility for the earlier murders but police could not verify the claim. A Twitter page purportedly belonging to the local militant group, Ansarullah Bangla Team, had also claimed the murders.
