Two people have been hacked to death in the capital of Bangladesh.A third person, a security guard at the apartment building where the killings took place, was seriously wounded in Monday’s attack in Dhaka, in which six attackers murdered Julhas Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar.
One of the killed was Mannan ,who was the editor of Rupban, the only LGBT magazine in the country, and he had previously worked at the US embassy in the city.The incident came two days after a university professor was killed in similar fashion in an attack in Rajshahi, which was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or ISIS) group.
Parvez Mollah, an 18-year-old security guard, said that the six attackers were aged between 25 and 30 and that they had arrived at the building posing as couriers.”They told me that had some parcels for Mannan and, as I went up to his apartment, three of the six attackers followed me to the second floor and attacked Mannan with machetes,” she added.”As Mannan fell to the floor, the attackers entered the apartment and fired bullets before fleeing.”