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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bangladesh journalist and wife murdered

An elderly journalist and his wife have been found murdered in their ransacked home in the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka. Their throats had been slit.

Police recovered the bodies of Farhad Khan, 60, joint news editor of the Bengali national daily Janata, and his wife Rahima, 55, on Friday afternoon.

Though police are uncertain about the motive, cash, gold ornaments and other valuables were stolen.

Farhad was the founder president of the writers' forum known as Lekha Samity.

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