Samad death: Al-Qaeda's Bangladesh division 'claims' responsibility
"Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh division of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), claimed credit for the murder of blogger Nazimuddin Samad in the capital, Dhaka," SITE Intelligence Group claimed on its website on Friday.
Nazimuddin Samad, a law student, was hacked by machetes and later shot at a traffic junction, BBC reported.
He was reportedly an organiser of 'Ganajagran Manch', a secular campaigning group.
Samad was believed to be a secular person as he wrote 'I have no religion' in his Facebook profile under religious views.
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