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Bangladesh Hindu teacher's attacker killed in shootout
Source: Reuters
World | Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:55am EDT
Bangladesh Hindu teacher's attacker killed in shootout
A suspected Islamist militant was killed on Saturday in a shootout, police said, days after he critically wounded a Hindu college teacher in the latest attack on minority groups.
Ghulam Faijullaha Fahim, 19, who was in police custody, was shot when officers took him with them to help capture his associates, said Sarwar Hossain, police chief of Madaripur, 70 km (44 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.
He was caught in crossfire that erupted after people started shooting at the police, he said, adding that Fahim was dead on arrival at a hospital.
Mathematics teacher Ripon Chakraborty was attacked on Wednesday by Fahim and two other knife-wielding assailants when he answered the doorbell at his home.
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Bangladesh Hindu teacher's attacker killed in shootout
A suspected Islamist militant was killed on Saturday in a shootout, police said, days after he critically wounded a Hindu college teacher in the latest attack on minority groups.
Ghulam Faijullaha Fahim, 19, who was in police custody, was shot when officers took him with them to help capture his associates, said Sarwar Hossain, police chief of Madaripur, 70 km (44 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka.
He was caught in crossfire that erupted after people started shooting at the police, he said, adding that Fahim was dead on arrival at a hospital.
Mathematics teacher Ripon Chakraborty was attacked on Wednesday by Fahim and two other knife-wielding assailants when he answered the doorbell at his home.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-violence-idUSKCN0Z40BN