Six held in blitz on a ackers

– Bangladesh police said yesterday they had arrested six members of banned Islamist groups blamed for a series of deadly attacks, including the main suspect in the gruesome killing of a secular publisher.

Moinul Islam Shamim was arrested on Tuesday night just outside the capital, Dhaka, for allegedly leading the fatal hacking attack on publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan in his office last year. – AFP