U.S. blogger Avijit Roy slashed to death

Bangladeshi secular activists take part in a Feb. 27 protest of the killing of Avijit Roy, a U.S. blogger of Bangladeshi origin who was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in Dhaka. (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

Feb. 27, 2015 11:24 AM PT

Avijit Roy, 42, a champion of secularism and outspoken critic of Islamists, was repeatedly stabbed by at least two attackers at the Dhaka University campus in Bangladesh. His wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, was hospitalized with multiple wounds.

Bangladeshi police investigate the site of a Feb. 26 stabbing attack on U.S. blogger Avijit Roy in Dhaka. (Rajib Dhar / Associated Press)

Rafida Ahmed Bonya is carried on a stretcher after she was seriously injured in a Feb. 26 attack that killed her husband, U.S. blogger Avijit Roy, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Rajib Dhar / AFP/Getty Images)

A Bangladeshi activist sets up a light on a poster displaying a portrait of Avijit Roy as others gather during a Feb. 27 protest of the blogger’s slaying in Dhaka the night before. (A.M. Ahad / Associated Press)