“Shocked by the savage murder of #AvijitRoy as I am by all the #violence that has taken place in #Bangladesh in recent months,” the High Commissioner tweeted on Friday.
Unidentified assailants have hacked the blogger to death and seriously injured his blogger wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya on Thursday night inside Dhaka University campus.
His father, professor Ajay Roy, filed a case of murder with Shahbagh police on Friday and said extremists were behind the murder and “Jamaat(-e-Islami) has backed them”.
The case did not name anyone and was filed against unidentified assailants.
Islamist zealots have been threatening Avijit, a bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, for his active campaign against Islamist radicals.
He was a regular bdnews24.com columnist and the founder of the popular blog, Mukto-mona.
