Professor Hacked To Death In Bangladesh
KABUL: (MEP) A university professor in Bangladesh has been hacked to death after unknown militants attacked him near his home, police said.
AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi University in the west of the country.
Sadhir Haider Chowdhury, a city police commissioner said the professor was waiting for a bus to take him to campus when two or three people attacked him from behind and stabbed him in the neck and hacked him to death.
The incident is the latest in a series of brutal assaults on secular intellectuals and activists in the South Asian country.
Nahidul Islam, a deputy commissioner of police, said, “The attack is similar to the ones carried out on bloggers in the recent past.”
“His neck was hacked at least three times and was 70-80% slit,” said Rajshahi police commissioner Mohammad Shamsuddin. “By examining the nature of the attack, we suspect that it was carried out by extremist groups.”
Investigations have been launch to track the attackers.
The irritable death comes only two years after another Rajshahi University professor, identified as Shafiul Islam, was hacked to death by unknown attackers.
