Secular writer dragged out of shop, shot dead in Bangladesh
A 60-year-old writer and publisher was dragged out of a shop and shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bangladesh's Munshiganj district on Monday. Shahzahan Bachchu had received death threats from extremist groups for promoting secularism in the Muslim-majority nation. Several writers and activists have been murdered in Bangladesh in last three years in attacks by suspected Islamist militants.