He was so maimed with wounds to his head, face and neck, that police identified him through the voter identification card he was carrying.
His friends warned him to be careful, to watch what he posted online. But Rahman dismissed those concerns, saying his Facebook profile page didn't even bear his picture. They don't even know what I look like, he told them.
American blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death in late February.
His death was the second time in five weeks that someone was killed in Dhaka for online posts critical of Islam -- but they are hardly the only two who've paid a steep price.
In the last two years, several bloggers have died, either murdered or under mysterious circumstances.
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