LGBT Magazine Editor Hacked to Death in Bangladesh

A gay rights activist who edited the only LGBT magazine in Bangladesh was hacked to death on Monday.

Xulhaz Mannan, 35, who edited the magazine Roopbaan, was killed along with another person when attackers entered an apartment in the capital city of Dhaka, BBC reports. The murder is the latest in a string of brutal attacks on writers and members of religious minority groups by suspected Islamist militants in the country.