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Bangladeshi writer attacked, dies in hospital
Dhaka, Feb 26
Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy
was attacked and killed by unidentified assailants Thursday and while
his blogger wife was injured, media reports said.
Roy along with
his wife Rafida Ahmed Banna were attacked at Dhaka University's TSC
intersection around 9.30 p.m. while they were returning from the Amar
Ekushey Book Fair.
The writer, who suffered a deep gash on his
head, was taken to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) for
emergency surgery but died during it, the hospital's police outpost
Inspector Mozzamel Haque told bdnews24.com.
Roy, an engineer who was working in the US, had been threatened before by Islamist fundamentalists.
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