DHAK, Bangladesh, March 31 (UPI) -- Four men in Dhaka, Bangladesh, were charged Tuesday with the death of a blogger who they believed insulted Islam in his writings.
Washiqur Rahman, 27, was killed Monday on a Dhaka street by assailants armed with knives, who accused him of defaming Islam in his social media postings. Two of the alleged attackers, each a student at a religious school in Chittagong with known links to the conservative Hefazat-e-Islam group, were held by bystanders until police arrived. A third escaped, and a fourth, regarded as the planner of the attack and whose name was mentioned during police questioning, is also at large. A case was filed against the four men Tuesday.