Man arrested in hacking deaths of 2 LGBT activists in Bangladesh
Source: CNN
(CNN) - A member of a homegrown Islamist militant group in Bangladesh has been arrested in connection with the hacking deaths of two LGBT-rights activists, police in Dhaka, the nation's capital, said Sunday.
Shariful Islam Shihab, 37, a member of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, was arrested in a western district of Kushtia, said police media relations officer Maruf Hossain Sorder. Members of the group have been arrested in other hacking deaths in Bangladesh.
Xulhaz Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar were inside an apartment April 25 when five or six young men posing as couriers arrived under the guise of delivering a package and hacked them to death with machetes, said police in Dhaka. Mannan's mother and a maid were inside the apartment at the time but were not killed.
Mannan was an employee of the American government antipoverty agency USAID as well as editor of the country's first LGBT magazine. Mojumdar was also a leader in the fight for LGBT rights and had acted on the stage and television in Bangladesh.
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By Ralph Ellis, CNN
Updated 1529 GMT (2329 HKT) May 16, 2016
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