HARLOW: We're learning new details in the troubling death of a prominent American blogger, brutally hacked to death in his native Bangladesh. Multiple media outlets reporting the attack was a professional hit carried out by Islamic radicals. Aviji Roy was an outspoken critic of religious extremism. He was no stranger to death threats. Our</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER (voice-over): Blood on the street of the Bangladesh capital on Friday, following a brutal and deadly attack on an American author and blogger. Aviji Roy, a U.S. citizen and his wife, were returning from a book fair when witnesses say they were attacked by at least two men wielding machetes. The 42-year-old Roy was hacked to death. His wife was seriously injured.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I saw an unknown person bring out a big knife and first hit him from behind on his head and then on his shoulders. I shouted for help from the people, but nobody came to save him. No one came. A lady was with him. She was his wife. She was also hit on the shoulder.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Police say they've recovered the machetes used in the attacks, but haven't yet identified any suspects. According to several reports, an Islamist extremist group has claimed responsibility. Friends and family say Roy had received numerous death threats from Islamist militants unhappy with his blog. Roy founded the site</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's so sad is the way in which he was murdered was so brutal and so callous. For someone who is just so kind and so open minded. It's horrible.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: News of the shocking attack was splashed across front pages of the Bangladesh Daily in Friday. And hundreds of protesters marched through the streets to the capitol to denounce Roy's murder. He is the second blogger to have been killed and the forthright to attack in the Muslim majority nation over the past ten years.
Avijit Roy Hacked To Death In His Native Bangladesh