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Third blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh - police

04:51 - 12 May 2015
DHAKA, May 12 (Reuters) - A blogger was hacked to death by assailants using machetes in Bangladesh on Tuesday, the third attack in less than three months on a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation.
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Ananta Bijoy Das, a blogger who advocated secularism, was attacked by four assailants in northeastern Sylhet district on Tuesday morning, senior police official Mohammad Rahamatullah told Reuters. Rahamatullah said Das was a 33-year-old banker.

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(Reporting by Ruma Paul; Editing by Paul Tait)

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