Bangladeshi blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu is hacked to death

Bangladeshi blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu has been hacked to death today at about 9:45am at the Tejgaon Indsutrial area. Two Madrasa students have been detained with sharp weapons for suspected involvement with the murder. Three meat cleavers have been recovered from the crime scene.
This assassination follows a similar murder of blogger-writer Avijit Roy on Feb 25 at the Dhaka University campus. The two arrested for suspected involvement are Zikrullah, a Chittagong Nadrassa student and Arif, a student of Dhaka’s Mirpur area, according to police reports.

Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 30, 2015

Mandatory credit: Suvra Kanti Das / UnFrame

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