Avijit Roy
Year: 2015
Nationality:
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Press organization: Freelance
What's Avijit Roy's story?
On February 26, 2015, two unidentified men approached Avijit Roy and his wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonna, as they were leaving a book fair in the Dhaka University campus area, according to Bonna and witnesses, the Dhaka Tribune reported. The assailants stabbed and hacked at them with sharp weapons and fled the scene, news reports said. Roy and Bonna were taken to a local hospital, where Roy was pronounced dead, according to news reports. Bonna was critically wounded.
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