Al Qaeda's South Asia branch says it killed atheist Bangladeshi blogger
Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the murder of Bangladeshi blogger Avijit Roy, according to US monitoring group. The US citizen was hacked to death in Dhaka two months ago, allegedly for his secular writings.
04.05.2015
Asim Umar, the leader of Al Qaeda in the India Subcontinent (AQIS), said in a video on Monday that his organization killed atheist Bangladeshi blogger, Avijit Roy, according to SITE, a US website that monitors extremist groups.
The AQIS leader also claimed responsibility for the assassination of a number of other "blasphemers" in the Muslim-majority South Asian country.
Forty-year-old Roy and his 36-year-old wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, were walking near Dhaka University on February 26 when they were attacked by unidentified assailants carrying machetes.
Bangladeshi authorities had earlier said a local Islamist group, Ansarullah Bangla Team, which claimed it killed Roy shortly after the attack, was behind the blogger's murder.
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