The US State Department has expressed its outrage after two men – one of whom worked at the American embassy in Bangladesh and edited the country’s only LGBT magazine – were hacked to death in the capital Dhaka.
The murders of Xulhaz Mannan, 35, a prominent gay rights activist, and of a friend, on Monday have sparked widespread condemnation. Suspected Islamist militants reportedly posed as couriers to get into an apartment where the brutal killings took place.
A third person was wounded.
The editor of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine has been ‘hacked to death’ in Dhaka.https://t.co/OJKhKo3qdH pic.twitter.com/bnBmixzUJd— Gay Times Magazine (@GayTimesMag) 25 avril 2016
Witnesses said the attackers shouted “Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)” as they fled the scene.
Mannan previously worked at the US Embassy in Dhaka.
US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat condemned the killings.
“We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the government of Bangladesh in the strongest terms to ap