Two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death Monday at an apartment in Bangladesh's capital, police said, the latest deadly attack on minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sorder said at least six men entered the seven-storey building, saying they were there to deliver a parcel to the home of one of the victims.
"Unidentified attackers entered an apartment at Kalabagan and hacked two people to death by machetes. Another person was injured," he told AFP. Private station Jamuna TV, quoting witnesses, reported the attackers shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is the greatest) and fired blanks to create panic as they left. Police did not identify the victims, but an official from Roopbaan, the country's only LBGT magazine, named one as editor and gay rights activist Xulhaz Mannan.
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