A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger from the Atlanta area was killed Friday as he and his wife walked through Bangladesh’s capital city, Dhaka.
Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-born U.S. citizen, was an advocate of atheism and a prominent voice against religious intolerance in the Bengali community. On Friday, he and his wife, Rafida Ahmed, who’s also a blogger, were attacked on the street with cleavers as they were returning from a book fair at Dakah University. Ahmad was also seriously injured in the attack.As heard on the radio
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