Bangladesh Doctor Hacked to Death by Suspected Extremist Islamists

Bangladesh has seen a surge in violent attacks targeting atheist bloggers, academics, and religious minorities.

File photo: Bangladeshi students protest seeking arrest of three motorcycle-riding assailants who hacked student activist Nazimuddin Samad to death in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Photo: AP)

• The latest in a series of suspected Islamist attacks in Bangladesh, machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a village doctor and wounded a university teacher in western Bangladesh on Friday.
  

• The attackers rode a motorcycle, which they used to block the victims, Mir Sanaur Rahman and Saifuzzaman, before hacking them to death, local police chief Mohammad Sahabuddin Chowdhury revealed.
  

• Over the past year, the muslim-majority nation has seen a surge in violent attacks that have targeted atheist bloggers, academics, religious minorities and foreign aid workers.
  

(With inputs from Reuters)