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Bangladesh police wife shot dead in suspected militant attack

DHAKA: The wife of a police official known for battling Islamist extremism was shot dead in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in what police suspected was the latest in a series of attacks by militants in the mainly Muslim South Asian nation.

Three assailants riding a motorcycle stabbed and then shot Mahmuda Aktar, 33, when she was on her way home after putting her son onto a school bus in the port city of Chittagong, said Humayan Kabir, deputy police commissioner of Chittagong.

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