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Publishers, 2 others stabbed in Bangladesh in latest attacks on secular voices - LA Times
Publishers, 2 others stabbed in Bangladesh in latest attacks on secular voices
In this February 2015 photo, police investigate the scene of the attack on blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Rajib Dhar / Associated Press)
Mohiuddin Kader and Shashank BengaliContact Reporter
The publisher of slain Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy was stabbed in his office Saturday along with two other men in the latest attack against secular voices in the South Asian nation.
Police said that a group of men stormed into the office and held a gun on publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul before stabbing him and two bloggers in the head. All were receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, authorities said.
Tutul, 43, was in critical condition, said Sentu Das, a police official at the hospital.
Also wounded were writers Ranadeep Basu, 50, and Tareque Rahim, 30.
It was the latest brazen attack against prominent atheists in Bangladesh, where fears are growing over the rise of radical Islam. Earlier this year, Roy, a U.S. resident, was fatally stabbed, and his wife was injured outside a book fair in Dhaka, the capital. Tutul was a friend of Roy's and head of the publishing house Shudhdhoswar.
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Hours after the attack on Tutul, police said another publisher, Foysal Arefin Dipon, was stabbed to death near a market in Dhaka. Dipon was head of Jagritee publishing house.
Two other secular writers, Wasiqur Rahman Babu and Ananta Bijoy Das, were killed in separate attacks this year.
Tutul had filed a complaint with police after being threatened on Facebook after the attack on Roy in February.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The Bangladeshi militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team has said it was behind the killings of Roy and the other writers.
Bangladesh bomb blasts kill 1, injure more than 100; Islamic State claims responsibility
The attack follows the killings in recent weeks of two foreigners, an Italian aid worker and a Japanese tourist. The Islamic State militant group said it carried out the killings, but Bangladeshi officials have denied the presence of the Iraq- and Syria-based group in their country.
Authorities have blamed the attacks instead on domestic militants and Islamist political parties loyal to opponents of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Kader is a special correspondent. Staff writer Bengali reported from Mumbai, India.
For more news from South Asia, follow @SBengali on Twitter
Publishers, 2 others stabbed in Bangladesh in latest attacks on secular voices
In this February 2015 photo, police investigate the scene of the attack on blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
(Rajib Dhar / Associated Press)
Mohiuddin Kader and Shashank BengaliContact Reporter
The publisher of slain Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy was stabbed in his office Saturday along with two other men in the latest attack against secular voices in the South Asian nation.
Police said that a group of men stormed into the office and held a gun on publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul before stabbing him and two bloggers in the head. All were receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, authorities said.
Tutul, 43, was in critical condition, said Sentu Das, a police official at the hospital.
Also wounded were writers Ranadeep Basu, 50, and Tareque Rahim, 30.
It was the latest brazen attack against prominent atheists in Bangladesh, where fears are growing over the rise of radical Islam. Earlier this year, Roy, a U.S. resident, was fatally stabbed, and his wife was injured outside a book fair in Dhaka, the capital. Tutul was a friend of Roy's and head of the publishing house Shudhdhoswar.
See the most-read stories this hour >>
Hours after the attack on Tutul, police said another publisher, Foysal Arefin Dipon, was stabbed to death near a market in Dhaka. Dipon was head of Jagritee publishing house.
Two other secular writers, Wasiqur Rahman Babu and Ananta Bijoy Das, were killed in separate attacks this year.
Tutul had filed a complaint with police after being threatened on Facebook after the attack on Roy in February.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The Bangladeshi militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team has said it was behind the killings of Roy and the other writers.
Bangladesh bomb blasts kill 1, injure more than 100; Islamic State claims responsibility
The attack follows the killings in recent weeks of two foreigners, an Italian aid worker and a Japanese tourist. The Islamic State militant group said it carried out the killings, but Bangladeshi officials have denied the presence of the Iraq- and Syria-based group in their country.
Authorities have blamed the attacks instead on domestic militants and Islamist political parties loyal to opponents of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Kader is a special correspondent. Staff writer Bengali reported from Mumbai, India.
For more news from South Asia, follow @SBengali on Twitter
