Police said five or six men
had entered the seven-storey building under the guise of delivering a package
and attacked a Gay rights and friend with machetes.
Gay rights activist Xulhaz
Mannan and his friend were found dead in an apartment in the Bangladeshi
capital Dhaka on Monday.
Two men, including an
editor of Bangladesh's only LGBT magazine, have been hacked to death by
suspected Islamist extremists.
According to witnesses, the
unidentified assailants shouted "Allahu Akbar" and fired blanks as
they fled the scene.
Mr Mannan launched
Bangladesh's first magazine for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
community, Roopbaan, with friends two years ago.
He had also worked for the
US Agency for International Development and as a protocol officer for a former
US ambassador to Bangladesh.
He helped organise an
annual Rainbow Rally in Bangladesh, which was due to take place on 14 April,
but was banned on security grounds.
Ahead of the event, Mr
Mannan told the AFP news agency that the organisers had received threats from
Islamist extremists.
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