Unidentified assailants threw handmade bombs at a newspaper editor in a southwestern Bangladesh city, killing him and wounding his son, police and hospital sources said. Humayun Kabir, 56, editor of Bengali-language regional newspaper Dainik Janmabhumi, was attacked as he stepped out of his car in front of his office in Khulna city, 135 kilometres southwest of the capital, Dhaka. Kabir was the second journalist to be killed in the crime-prone southwestern city this year. Manik Saha, a correspondent for the daily New Age newspaper and the Bengali language service of the BBC, was killed in a bomb attack in January. Saha was known for his reporting on the local mafia, smuggling and communist rebels. At least six other journalists who criticised official corruption or organised crime have been murdered in the country since 1997.

Sources: BBC, The Australian and the Daily Star