Assailants hack to death writer Avijit Roy, wife injured [View all]
Source: Bangladesh News
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Islamist zealots have been threatening Avijit, a bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, for his active campaign against Islamist radicals.
Avijit has been a regular bdnews24.com columnist and the founder of popular blog Mukto-mona. He is the son of well-known physicist Ajay Roy who has taught at Dhaka University for a long time.
Avijit had suffered a deep gash on his head during the assault and Banna lost a finger and suffered cut wounds. She was still under treatment at DMCH.
Two machetes, Banna’s severed finger and a bag that possibly belonged to the assailants were recovered from the scene, Shahbagh police Sub-Inspector Sohel Rana said.
He told bdnews24.com: “We found some old folded newspapers inside the bag along with some other things. It seems the machetes were wrapped with the newspapers.” CID officials collected the evidence from the crime scene, he added.
One of the witnesses, a teashop owner in that area, told bdnews24.com that both assailants after carrying out the attack had dumped their weapons at the scene.
Then one of them ran towards TSC and the other Suhrawardy Udyan, according to the witness.
Avijit's blogger friends say he was possibly trapped – some bloggers had invited him to a book fair event.
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