'Militant atheist' blogger stabbed in Bangladesh

AFP
Dhaka, January 15, 2013
First Published: 14:46 IST(15/1/2013)
Last Updated: 14:49 IST(15/1/2013)

A self-styled "militant atheist" who is famed for his anti-religious blogs was fighting for life on Tuesday after he was stabbed in the capital of Muslim-majority Bangladesh, police and medics said.

Asif Mohiuddin, 29, was attacked on Monday night by three unidentified men near his office in Dhaka's upscale Uttara district.

"We operated on him for more than three hours. He is improving but still not out of danger. He has six deep cuts including two grave ones in the shoulder," Haridas Saha, a surgeon at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, told AFP.

"The nature of the cuts proved that the attackers wanted to murder him," Saha said, adding that friends of Mohiuddin who were with him at the time of the attack blamed Islamic "fundamentalists".

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