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       Bangladesh Police Investigate Local Islamists in Publisher Attacks

   by VOA News

   Police in Bangladesh say they are investigating a local radical
   Islamist group in the latest deadly attacks on two publishers in the
   capital, Dhaka.

   Senior police officials say they suspect the banned group Ansaullah
   Bangla Team (ABT) carried out Saturday's attacks.

   But another militant group, al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, also
   claimed responsibility.

   Publisher Ahmed Rahim Tutul and two writers were shot and stabbed by
   three men in their office at the Shudhdhoswar publishing house Saturday
   in Dhaka.  All three were hospitalized, and Tutul was in critical
   condition, police said.

   In a second attack, publisher Faisal Arefin Deepan, of the Jagriti
   Prokashoni publishing house, was found hacked to death in his office.

   Both of the publishers involved had published works by
   Bangladeshi-American blogger and writer Avijit Roy, who was killed in
   an attack on the Dhaka University campus while walking with his wife in
   February.  ABT had claimed responsibility for the blogger's killing.

   Dozens of teachers, students, writers and protesters rallied Sunday at
   Dhaka University to protest the attacks.

   The latest attacks come amid fears about the rise of extremist Islamic
   groups in Bangladesh.  At least four atheist bloggers have been
   murdered in the country this year.

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