{"id":54719,"date":"2016-04-26T00:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T22:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=54719"},"modified":"2016-04-26T00:47:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T22:47:28","slug":"suspected-islamists-kill-bangladeshi-gay-activist-working-for-u-s-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=54719","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Islamists kill Bangladeshi gay activist working for U.S. embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the U.S. embassy and a friend in an apartment in Bangladesh&#8217;s capital on Monday, police said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The killings took place two days after a university professor was slain in similar fashion on Saturday in an attack claimed by Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Five or six assailants went to the apartment of Xulhaz Mannan, 35, an editor of Rupban, Bangladesh&#8217;s first magazine for gay, bisexual and transgender people, and attacked him and a friend with sharp weapons, Dhaka city police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sordar said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They entered the apartment disguised as couriers, he said, quoting witnesses.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The assailants also wounded a security guard. 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