Two people hacked to death in Bangladesh's capital

Editor of magazine for LGBT community said to be among latest victims of wave of violence targeting liberal activists.

Two people have been hacked to death at an apartment, including an editor of a transgender magazine in the Bangladesh.

Another person was also killed and one person injured when three attackers entered their apartment in Dhaka posing as couriers and attacked them with sharp weapons, police said on Monday.

Julhas Mannan ran a transgender magazine Rupban and previously worked at the US embassy. The other person killed was a gay-rights activisit.

"Unidentified attackers entered an apartment at Kalabagan and hacked two people to death," Maruf Hossain Sorder, Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman, told AFP.

The incident comes two days after a university professor was killed in a similar fashion in an attack in Rajshahi claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.

Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury, reporting from Dhaka, said at least three assailants critically injured a security guard on their way out of the building.

"There is major fear in the country and the government is denying involvement of international terrorists or ISIL in the country even after the groups have highlighted that Bangladesh is one of their operating base," he said.

"There has not been too much of progress in investigations and with these kind of attacks space for freedom of speech is diminishing in the country."

Earlier this month, Nazimuddin Samad, a 28-year-old law student, was hacked to death by three men riding a motorcycle as he walked with a friend in central Dhaka.

Last year, assailants hacked to death at least four atheist bloggers and a secular publisher in a long-running series of killings of secular activists.

The Muslim-majority country has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have been targeted.

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The article talks about how international terrorist groups or ISIL seems to be attacking secular and liberal activists. It seems as if the nation isn't taking action for the incidents of death and it seems like the attacks aren't ceasing, therefore I think the nation should investigate the cases more thoroughly and protect its citizens more readily. After reading the article the author seems to be biased against the Muslim sects, claiming them to be the terrorists that repeatedly attacked these reporters and citizens. Despite the governments denial for the involvement of international terrorists, it seems after reading the details of ISIL having an operation base in Bangladesh that the government is wrong in its denials. Therefore I think the government should take action to ensure protection for all its citizens and to investigate the cases of death with more detail.