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Bloggers killings: Police arrest three suspects

India Blooms News Service | | Aug 19, 2015, at 12:46 am

#RAB # bloggers death # Bloggers killing # Avijit Roy # Ananta Bijoy # Touhidur Rahman # Sadek Ali # Bangladesh # Bangladesh blogger

Dhaka, Aug 18 (IBNS): Three suspected militants have been arrested by security officials in Bangladesh in connection with the killings of bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy.

RAB spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan told bdnews24.com that the three -- Touhidur Rahman, Sadek Ali and Aminul Mallick -- were picked up from Nilkhet and Dhanmondi areas of Dhaka.

Touhidur Rahman was a fund raiser, he told the website.

Several bloggers have been killed in Bangladesh in recent times.

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