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Police in Bangladesh have arrested a suspected Islamist militant over the hacking death of a US blogger whose writings on religion angered hardliners.
Deputy police commissioner Masudur Rahman said the man, who was named as 24-year-old Arafat Rahman, was being held in connection with the 2015 machete attack on Avijit Roy and his wife. Mr Roy was fatally injured and his wife seriously hurt, on their way home from a book fair in Dhaka.
Police said they believed the suspect was a member of the Al-Qaeda-inspired group, Ansarullah Bangla Team. The organisation has been blamed for numerous attacks, including a July 2016 assault on a restaurant in the city’s diplomatic quarter that left 22 people dead, most of them foreigners.
Bangladesh police arrest suspect in hacking murder of US blogger
That took a bit.
Deputy police commissioner Masudur Rahman said the man, who was named as 24-year-old Arafat Rahman, was being held in connection with the 2015 machete attack on Avijit Roy and his wife. Mr Roy was fatally injured and his wife seriously hurt, on their way home from a book fair in Dhaka.
Police said they believed the suspect was a member of the Al-Qaeda-inspired group, Ansarullah Bangla Team. The organisation has been blamed for numerous attacks, including a July 2016 assault on a restaurant in the city’s diplomatic quarter that left 22 people dead, most of them foreigners.
Bangladesh police arrest suspect in hacking murder of US blogger
That took a bit.
