A group of assailants Monday stormed the home of Xulhaz Mannan, a staffer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, killing him and a friend, police told The Daily Star.
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Unknown assailants hacked to death to Mannan along with another inside a house in capital Dhaka’s Kalabagan on Monday.
Police officers said the attackers tricked the victims by saying that they are from courier service carrying a packet for Mr Mannan.
He did not identify the dead, but private television Channel 24 said one of them was the editor of Roopbaan, the country’s only magazine for the LGBT community.
Then the attackers chopped a security guard, Parvez Mollah, at the gate and left the scene chanting Allah Hu Akbor (the God is great).
“We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the Government of Bangladesh in the strongest terms to apprehend the criminals behind these murders”.
The attack comes two days after a university professor was killed in a similar fashion in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.
Islamic State has also claimed responsibility for the killings of two foreigners, and attacks on mosques and Christian priests in Bangladesh since September.
A number of secularist writers, bloggers and publishers in Bangladesh have been killed or seriously injured in attacks perpetrated by Islamist extremists since 2013.
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Earlier this month, Nazimuddin Samad, a 28-year-old law student, was hacked to death by three men riding a motorcycle as he walked with a friend in central Dhaka.
