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Bangladesh

Third secular blogger killed

A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death on Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack by suspected Islamists since February. Police said Ananta Bijoy Das was murdered in daylight as he headed to work at a bank in Sylhet, Bangladesh's fifth-largest city. Fellow writers said the attack highlighted a culture of impunity. Kamrul Hasan, commissioner of Sylhet police, said a group of about four masked men attacked Das at about 8:30 am on a busy street.