Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque feared for his son,
Faisal Arefin Dipan, when he heard of the attack on Avijit Roy’s
publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul. Photo: TV grab
Saturday, 31 October 2015
Publisher of slain Bangladesh blogger Avijit Roy attacked in his office
Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul and two others were taken to the
hospital with severe injuries after they were hacked in the office of
publishing house ‘Shuddhaswar’ in Dhaka on Saturday.
The publisher, who was a close friend of Roy, had filed a complaint with police after being threatened with death on Facebook after Avijit Roy was hacked to death in February this year.
Investigators said that Islamist radicals were behind the attack on Roy, which also left his wife blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonya severely injured.
Saturday’s attack left two others along with Tutul injured. All of them have been taken to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Around 2:30pm, three men barged in to the publishing house’s office at Dhaka’s Lalmatia.
A witness told bdnews24.com that the assailants hacked Tutul and two others before locking up them and a few others in the office from outside.
“There were three people. I could not see anything as I was held in gunpoint,” he said.
Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul (File Photo)
Residents of the building said they had heard sounds of firing.Police rushed to spot and took the injured three to the hospital.
Besides Tutul, the two others injured in the attack were blogger Tarik Rahim and writer Ranadipam Basu.
Immediately after the attack Basu, wrote in his Facebook post that he along with Tutul and Tarik were hacked.
bdnews24.com’s Chief Crimes Correspondent Liton Haider reported from the scene around 30 minutes after the attack that the office was vandalised and had bloodstains all over.
Mohammadpur police OC Jamal Uddin Mir told bdnews24.com that they had to break into the office to rescue those injured.
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The publisher, who was a close friend of Roy, had filed a complaint with police after being threatened with death on Facebook after Avijit Roy was hacked to death in February this year.
Investigators said that Islamist radicals were behind the attack on Roy, which also left his wife blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonya severely injured.
Saturday’s attack left two others along with Tutul injured. All of them have been taken to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Around 2:30pm, three men barged in to the publishing house’s office at Dhaka’s Lalmatia.
A witness told bdnews24.com that the assailants hacked Tutul and two others before locking up them and a few others in the office from outside.
“There were three people. I could not see anything as I was held in gunpoint,” he said.
Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul (File Photo)
Besides Tutul, the two others injured in the attack were blogger Tarik Rahim and writer Ranadipam Basu.
Immediately after the attack Basu, wrote in his Facebook post that he along with Tutul and Tarik were hacked.
bdnews24.com’s Chief Crimes Correspondent Liton Haider reported from the scene around 30 minutes after the attack that the office was vandalised and had bloodstains all over.
Mohammadpur police OC Jamal Uddin Mir told bdnews24.com that they had to break into the office to rescue those injured.
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Dipan was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead, a police official confirmed.
Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul of publishing house ‘Shuddhaswar’ was hacked in his office at Lalmatia around 2:30pm along with blogger Tarik Rahim and writer Ranadipam Basu.
Tutul and Rahim are in critical condition.
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