Dhaka: The Bangladesh police on Sunday have shot dead a
19-years-old Islamist militant who was found in the lead role with killings of
several blogger and gay rights activists. The militant was also among the prime
suspect in killing the Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy back at 2015.
Sources from the Dhaka police said that the militant was
one among the six suspects who murdered Roy. Following the shootout, Masudur
Rahman, Dhaka deputy police commissioner, held a press conference and
confirmed the death of the militant.
The militant, known as Sharif, was a member of the banned
Ansarullah Bangla group. Sharif, who was also known as Hadi, was killed in the
Khilgaon district of Dhaka. Reports are that the he was also found responsible
of killing two gay rights activists, four bloggers and one publisher in April,
2016. Bangladesh police had announced a reward of $6,500 (£4,454) for his
capture.
With an estimated 160 million of Muslim population,
Bangladesh is alarmed for the last couple of years and was struggling to
control attacks to members from regional minority groups, atheists and
bloggers. Amid an international pressure to take a hold on the attack, it was
only this month when an immediate crackdown of force was ordered and an arrest
of more than 11,000 suspects was made.
However, the mass arrest has upsurge the human rights activists’
claiming that hundreds of innocent people were detained.
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