Bangladeshi university professor hacked to death in Rajshahi

Deputy police commissioner Nahidul Islam told AFP news
agency that Siddique had been involved in cultural
programmes, and had set up a school at Bagmara, a former
bastion of outlawed Islamist group Jamayetul Mujahideen
Bangladesh (JMB).
Members of JMB were arrested over an assault on an Italian
Catholic priest late last year.
Earlier this month a Bangladeshi law student who had
expressed secular views online died when he was hacked with
machetes and then shot in the capital, Dhaka.
The four bloggers killed last year had all appeared on a list of
84 "atheist bloggers" drawn up by Islamic groups in 2013 and
widely circulated.
There have also been attacks on members of religious
minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians
and Hindus. And two foreigners, an Italian aid worker and a
Japanese man, were also shot dead late last year, in
seemingly random attacks.
The so-called Islamic State group has said it carried out many
of the attacks - but this has not been independently verified.
Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government
has failed to properly address the attacks.
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