World | Bangladesh Another Blogger Is Hacked to Death in Bangladesh Niloy Chowdhury's murder was the fourth such killing since February By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Aug 7, 2015 8:57 AM CDT Copied Ashamoni, wife of blogger Niloy Chowdhury, cries at her house in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) Assailants believed to be Islamist militants entered an apartment building posing as potential tenants and killed a secular blogger in Bangladesh's capital today, in the fourth such deadly attack this year, police said. Police official Mustafizur Rahman said 40-year-old Niloy Chowdhury was hacked to death in his apartment. The motive was not immediately clear and no one claimed responsibility for the death. Chowdhury's friends said he was a secular blogger and had a Facebook account with the name "Niloy Neel" in which he criticized radical Islamists at home and abroad. The killing is the fourth of a secular blogger since February, when a Bangladeshi-American man who was also critical of Islam, Avijit Roy, was hacked to death on the Dhaka University campus while walking with his wife. Two others were attacked and killed in March and May, one in Dhaka and another in the northeastern city of Sylhet. Detectives say radical groups were behind the previous attacks and have made some arrests, but have failed to make any major headway into the killings. Read These Next Online sleuths expose Epstein file redactions. Sammy Davis Jr.'s ex, Swedish actor May Britt, is dead at 91. In this murder, arresting the boyfriend was a big mistake. After Kennedy Center name change, holiday jazz concert is canceled. Report an error