Bangladesh blogger murders: UK man and two others arrested

Police in Bangladesh have arrested three people, including a UK citizen, over the murders of secularist bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das.

Both were hacked to death earlier this year. Police allege British-Bangladeshi Touhidur Rahman planned the killings.

Mr Rahman, an IT expert, is alleged to have links with a banned militant group, Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).

Editor of the BBC's Bengali service, Sabir Mustafa, said Mr Rahman is understood to have tracked the bloggers online.

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