DHAKA (Reuters) - A blogger was hacked to death by assailants using machetes in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, the second attack in five weeks on a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority nation.
Washikur Rahman, a blogger advocating secularism, was attacked by young religious students on a busy street in the centre of Dhaka on Monday morning, a police official said.
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