Updated On: 08 August, 2015 08:03 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>A Bangladeshi blogger known for his secular views was hacked to death on Friday by assailants armed with machetes in capital Dhaka, the fourth one to be killed this year, the media reported</p>

Dhaka: A 40-year-old secular Bangladeshi blogger was hacked to death at his flat in Dhaka, Bangladesh yesterday by five machete-wielding unidentified assailants believed to be Islamist militants, the fourth such brutal murder in the country in less than six months.

The brutal murder
Niloy Chakrabarty, Neel was killed by assailants inside his fifth-floor flat at North Gorhan in Dhaka. The assailants entered the flat, pushed his wife and one of his friends aside and then hacked him to death. The murder sparked protests in the city.