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FBI offers help to probe killing of Bangladesh blogger

August 09, 2015 06:43 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 01:02 am IST - Dhaka

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Bangladeshi secular activists participate in a torch rally held to protest against the killing of blogger Niloy Chottopadhay, 40, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Suspected militants posing as tenants entered an apartment building and hacked to death the secular blogger in Bangladesh's capital in the fourth such deadly attack this year, police said. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)

Bangladeshi secular activists participate in a torch rally held to protest against the killing of blogger Niloy Chottopadhay, 40, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. Suspected militants posing as tenants entered an apartment building and hacked to death the secular blogger in Bangladesh's capital in the fourth such deadly attack this year, police said. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)

Officials of US investigating agency FBI on Sunday met Bangladeshi officials and offered their expertise in probing the murder of secular blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy.

Mahbub Alam, a deputy commissioner of police, told reporters that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials inquired if Bangladesh detectives need any help in their investigation.

The FBI officials also discussed the findings in the murder of another liberal blogger Avijit Roy, The Daily Star reported.

On Friday, unidentified assailants hacked 28-year-old Niloy to death inside his home.

Niloy, a Gonojagoron Mancha activist, is the fourth blogger to have been killed this year in Bangladesh by suspected Islamist militants.

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