An affiliate of terrorist group Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the murder of a journalist in Bangladesh.
Xulhaz Mannan, the editor of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine Roopban, was hacked to death when thugs raided his apartment.
His friend Mahbub Tonoy, also an LGBT activist, was also killed in the attack.
Terrorist group Ansar Al Islam, a local Al-Qaeda affiliate, has claimed responsibility for the killings.
In messages left online, the group said that the victims had been “pioneers of practicing and promoting homosexuality in Bangladesh” and were “working day and night to promote homosexuality”.
The Bangledeshi government has repeatedly denied any reported terrorism in the country, amid a string of attacks on secularists.
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