DHAKA: Bangladesh police said on Friday they have arrested two suspected members of a banned Islamist group over the brutal killing of an atheist blogger.

Niloy Chakrabarti was hacked to death at his home in Dhaka last on Friday by a gang of men, the fourth such murder in Bangladesh this year.

Police said they arrested Saad-al-Nahin and Masum Rana in Dhaka late on Thursday, and that both men had confessed to being members of the hardline Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), one of two groups that have claimed the killing.

Nahin already faces a charge of attempted murder relating to a 2013 attack on atheist blogger Asif Mohiuddin. He was on bail when he was arrested.

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2015

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