Bangladesh police have arrested a suspected Islamic terrorist over the hacking to death of two gay rights activists, part of a spate of murders of intellectuals, writers and religious minorities, officers said Sunday, according to AFP.
Xulhaz Mannan, editor of a magazine for Bangladesh's gay and lesbian community, and fellow activist Mahbub Tonoy were murdered in a Dhaka apartment last month by about six men carrying machetes and guns.
Police have arrested Shariful Islam Shihab, who they said was a member of a local Islamist terrorist outfit that has been blamed for a string of similar gruesome murders of secular and atheist bloggers.