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    Professor Hacked to Death by Suspected Islamist Militants in Bangladesh

   by VOA News

   Officials in northwestern Bangladesh say attackers have hacked to death
   a university professor.

   Authorities say several assailants with machetes attacked Rezaul Karim
   Siddique from behind early Saturday as he awaited a bus near his home
   in the city of Rajshahi. The 58-year-old English professor was an
   adviser to several cultural programs.

   No one has claimed responsibility for the attack and a motive was not
   immediately known. But police say the brutal murder is similar to other
   hacking deaths on secular and atheist activists in the South Asian
   nation carried out by Islamist militants.

   Earlier this month, the United States offered its resources and
   expertise to the Bangladeshi government as Dhaka investigates the
   latest in a series of murders of secular bloggers in the
   Muslim-majority country.

   Human rights groups have accused the Bangladeshi government of not
   doing enough to stop the attacks.  At least six bloggers and a secular
   publisher have been killed since 2013.
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