Unknown assailants killed the owner of Jagriti Prokashoni at city`s Aziz Super Market on Saturday evening, hours after another publisher of slain blogger Avijit Roy and two bloggers were stabbed in Lalmatia area.

Witnesses said the assailants attacked the publisher Faisal Arefin Dipon at his publication office at the 2nd floor of Aziz Super Market in city`s Shahbagh area on Saturday evening. They left the scene after locking the door of Jagriti Prokashoni with the dead body of the publisher inside.

Confirming the killing of the publisher, Abu Bakkar Siddique, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, said that police recovered the dead body and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

Earlier at around 2:45pm, assailants stabbed Ahmedur Rashid Tutul, 43, publisher of Shuddhwashawr, and bloggers Ranadipam Basu, 50, and Tareque Rahim, 30 at the office of Shuddhwashawr in Lalmatia Block C.

They were attending treatments at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

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