A U.S. embassy worker was one of two men murdered Monday evening in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, according to the embassy.
The statement, posted on Facebook, identified the man as Xulhaz Mannan.
"Xulhaz was more than a colleague to those of us fortunate to work with
him at the U.S. Embassy," wrote Ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom
Bernicat. "He was a dear friend."
The embassy said it was a "brutal murder" that took the life of Mannan
and another person, whom the embassy did not identify in the Facebook
post.
"We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the Government of
Bangladesh in the strongest terms to apprehend the criminals behind
these murders," Bernicat wrote.
While many details are not immediately available, several media outlets
reported that Mannan was the editor of Roopbaan, a Dhaka-based nonprofit
magazine for the LGBT community and that he as hacked to death.
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