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A senior editor of Bangledesh's first LGBT magazine has been hacked to death, police say.A senior editor of Bangledesh's first LGBT magazine has been hacked to death, police say.
Another person was also killed and one person injured in the attack. Julhas Mannan and another person were murdered when three people came to their apartment in the capital of Dhaka, posing as couriers and attacked them.
The activist was an editor for Roopbaan, which focuses on issues facing the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Another person was injured in the attack in Kalabagan.
On Saturday, Isis claimed responsibility for the murder of a Bangladesh university professor. The gay rights activist was an editor for Roopbaan, which focuses on issues facing the country's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Rezaul Karim Siddique was hacked to death, supposedly for "calling to atheism". On Saturday, a university professor was hacked to death in Bangladesh, supposedly for "calling to atheism".
Earlier this month, a liberal blogger who criticised Islamism was also hacked to death in Bangladesh by attackers wielding machetes. Rezaul Karim Siddique was on his way to the Rajshahi University, where he worked as an English teacher, when he was attacked.
More follows Isis later claimed responsibility for the murder.
Earlier this month, a liberal blogger who criticised Islamism was also hacked to death by attackers wielding machetes.
Nazimuddin Samad, a 18-year-old postgraduate law student, was attacked as he returned from a unviversity class.
At least four atheist bloggers were murdered in 2015 for writing critically against militant Islamism.