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| Bangladesh blogger Niloy Neel hacked to death in Dhaka | |
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| A Bangladeshi blogger known for his secular views has been hacked to death by a gang armed with machetes in the capital Dhaka, police say. | |
| Niloy Neel was reportedly attacked at his home in the capital's Goran area. | Niloy Neel was reportedly attacked at his home in the capital's Goran area. |
| He is the fourth secularist blogger to have been killed this year by suspected Islamist militants in Bangladesh. | |
| Mr Neel was on a list of bloggers viewed as targets by the militants, the head of the Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network told AFP news agency. | |
| Imran H Sarkar told the agency that the attackers entered Mr Neel's room, "shoved his friend aside and then hacked him [Neel] to death". | |
| Police said about six attackers had tricked their way into Mr Neel's home by saying they were looking to rent a flat. | |
| "Two of them then took him to a room and then slaughtered him there," deputy police commissioner Muntashirul Islam told AFP. | |
| "His wife was in the flat but she was confined to another room." | |
| In May, secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was attacked by masked men with machetes in Sylhet. He was said to have received death threats from Islamist extremists. |