Students in Bangladesh held protests over alleged government inaction after another secular blogger was killed by suspected Islamists. Nazimuddin Samad was hacked with machetes yesterday in the capital Dhaka and then shot. Police said students from the Jagannath University, where Mr Samad studied, blocked roads in and around the university.
They told that police inaction over previous killings had contributed to the death of Mr Samad. Mr Samad, 28, was reported to have been an organiser of the Ganajagran Manch, a secular campaigning group.
A string of prominent secular bloggers have been attacked or killed by religious extremists in Bangladesh in the last year. Bangladesh is officially secular but critics say the government has failed to properly address the attacks.
