DHAKA: A Bangladeshi blogger was hacked to death in Dhaka on Monday, the second such attack on a critic of religious fundamentalism in the country in less than two months. <\/p>\n
Three knife-wielding attackers set upon 27-year-old Washiqur Rahman near his home on Monday morning, weeks after the murder of an American atheist blogger in Dhaka triggered international outrage. <\/p>\n
Police said they had arrested two suspects at the scene and retrieved three knives, but a third escaped. <\/p>\n
Deputy commissioner Wahidul Islam said Mr Rahman had been brutally hacked to death. <\/p>\n
They hacked him in his head and neck with big knives and once he fell on the ground they then hacked his body, he said. <\/p>\n
Mr Rahmans blog did not appear to focus on religious issues, although fellow writers said he opposed religious fundamentalism. <\/p>\n
Police said he used a Facebook page under the name Washiqur Babu to post articles written by other writers that appeared to mock fundamentalist views. <\/p>\n
Deputy police commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarker said the motive for the killing appeared to be ideological differences with fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh. <\/p>\n
So far what weve gathered after primary interrogation of the two suspects is that they killed him because he criticised hardline Islamists, he said. <\/p>\n
Fellow blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who survived a brutal attack in January 2013, described Mr Rahman as a fellow warrior. <\/p>\n
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