Police Arrest Two Over The Death Of A Blogger In Bangladesh

Bangladesh police said on Friday that they have arrested two suspected members of a banned Islamist group over the brutal killing of an atheist blogger.


Niloy Chakrabarti was hacked to death at his home in Dhaka last Friday by a gang of men, the fourth such murder in Bangladesh this year.

Police said they arrested Saad-al-Nahin and Masum Rana in Dhaka late Thursday, and that both men had confessed to being members of the hardline Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), one of the two groups that have claimed the killing.

  Meanwhile the state police has continued further investigations into the brutal murder of the blogger.