Two cases were filed one by family over the murders and the other by police for assault on a cop in connection with the gruesome Kalabagan double murders.
Minhaj Mannan, elder brother of slain LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan, sued unknown people over the twin murders with Kalabagan Police Station.
In a Tweet from an account Ansar Al Islam, the suspected militant group spread two separate messages today, one in Bangla and the other in English, claiming the responsibility.
Murder of Xulhaz drew strong condemnation from local and international quarters including the United States, United Kingdom and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Bangladesh unit of al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent, Ansar Al Islam, has allegedly claimed responsibility of murdering a LGBT magazine editor and his friend in Kalabagan.
The second case was filed by Shamim Ahmed, a sub-inspector of Kalabagan police, who sued unknown assailants over the machete assault on Assistant Sub-Inspector Momtaz at the crime scene.
Nobody was arrested over the incident, said Mahmud Hassan, a sub-inspector of Kalabagan Police Station. Both cases were filed around 11:45pm last night.
Xulhaz, who is also a local staff member of the USAID, and his friend were hacked dead in their flat in the capital yesterday. It was said the attackers stormed into the house with weapons in hand, and stabbed a security guard and a policeman while storming out.
It was the second high-end killing of yesterday, after a drive-by shooting of a prison guard yards away from Bangladesh’s largest high-security prison. Just days ago, a Rajhsahi University teacher was hacked to death near his home.
The group has claimed responsibility of previous killings of secular activists including those of Nladri Chattopadhyay last year and Nazim Uddin Samad this month both in Dhaka.
The claim comes nearly 20 hours after Xulhaz Mannan and his friend were found dead, brutally murdered in a machete attack, in their Kalabagan flat in the capital yesterday.
Some youths stormed into the house and hacked the two dead. They also attacked a security guard and a policeman on their way out.