Three Avijit killers identified

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Staff Reporter :Police have identified three persons who directly took part in the murder of secularist writer-blogger Avijit Roy on the Dhaka University campus last February.Deputy Inspector General Monirul Islam, also Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit, made the disclosure while talking to reporters at DMP Media Centre on Thursday afternoon.He said, “Three persons who participated in Avijit killing have been identified. They are on the run. We do not have any information about their whereabouts.”Monirul said that police also got documentary evidence of about five to six persons, who were near the spot at the time of the killing. Slain Avijit Roy, also founder of Mukto-Mona blog, was hacked to death by assailants near the Teacher Student Center (TSC) on the DU campus when he and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya were returning from the book fair on February 26 last year. Bonna sustained severe injuries in the attack.

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