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Bangladesh

Blogger killed by machete attackers

Attackers in Bangladesh wielding machetes killed a liberal blogger, police said on Thursday, the latest in series of murders of secular activists by suspected Islamist militants. Postgraduate law student Nazimuddin Samad, 28, was attacked as he was returning from a class in the capital, Dhaka, late on Wednesday, police said. Last year, suspected militants killed five secular writers and a publisher.