location: Dhaka - Shahbagh
notes: On 31 October, a publisher was chopped to death by suspected Islamist militants from Ansar al-Islam Bangladesh at Shahbagh area in Dhaka city. The victim had earlier published a number of books of Avijit Roy, a secular blogger-writer who was hacked to death in February.
target_text: location: Dhaka - Shahbagh, fatalities: 1