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Islamist militant held over attack on publisher in B’desh

Md Sumon Hossain Patwari, 20, was arrested here on Wednesday for his involvement in the attack on Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Tutul, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said in a statement. 

Tutul’s publishing house ‘Shuddhashar’, whose publications were deemed blasphemous by extremists, had published writings of local secular writers. He had also published books by a controversial Bangladeshi-American atheist writer Avijit Roy, who was murdered outside a book fair in Dhaka last year. 

In a near simultaneous attacks on two publishing houses in Dhaka in October, suspected Islamists hacked to death publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, critically injured Tutul along with writer Ranadipam Basu and blogger Tarek Rahim. 

Ansar Al Islam, also known as Ansarullah, claimed responsibility for the attacks calling themselves as the Bangladeshi branch of al-Qaeda.

Patwari “admitted to taking part in the attack and hitting the victim thrice with a meat cleaver,” the statement said, adding the suspect has divulged important information about Ansarullah. 

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