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| Publisher killed, 3 bloggers hurt; Ansar Al Islam claims they dunnit |
| 2015-11-01 |
| A progressive publisher was killed, and another publisher and two bloggers were hacked and shot by unidentified criminals in Shahbagh and Lalmatia areas of the capital yesterday. Faisal Arefin Dipan, 45, owner of Jagriti Prokashani, was stabbed dead in his office at Aziz Cooperative Market at Shahbagh while Shuddha Swar Prokashani publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul and writer-blogger Sudeep Kumar Roy Barman, who writes under the name of Ranadipam Basu, and Tareq Rahim were injured at Tutul’s office at Lalmatia. Dipan was the sixth progressive activist to have been killed in the country since 2013. Both the publishers -- Dipan and Tutul -- had brought out books of writer and blogger Avijit Roy, who was hacked to death in February on the Dhaka University campus. Dipan, a school friend of Avijit Roy, was stabbed to death yesterday afternoon and his body was recovered by police at around 6:15pm from his office on the 2nd floor of the market, said Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) (media and publications) Muntasirul Islam Rony. Dipan was found lying in a pool of blood and was first taken to Square Hospital and later to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead, a police official confirmed. Ansar Al Islam, the self-styled ‘Bangladeshi branch’ of militant group al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), has claimed credit for the killing of the publisher and attacking another. A Twitter account, purportedly handled by the militant group Ansar Al Islam, made the claim hours after the attacks on Saturday night. “We, al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent, claim responsibility for this operation,” a message posted on the account read. When contacted over the matter, police DC Muntasirul Islam said, “We have learned about the claim of responsibility by the group. We are trying to verify the claim made by the militant outfit.” The slain publisher’s family told reporters that they tried to contact Dipan yesterday afternoon after getting news on TV that the publisher of Shuddha Swar was attacked at his office in Lalmatia. But they failed to reach Dipan on his mobile phone. Family members then went to his office and found his body in a pool of blood. He was found alone in the room, said family members. Dipan is the son of Professor Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque of Bangla Department of Dhaka University and his wife Razia Rahman is a senior medical officer of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). |
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