A Bangladesh court has allowed police to hold three suspects, including a British citizen, for seven days for interrogation in the murders of two secular bloggers.

Bangladeshi security officials arrested a suspect yesterday over the killing of an American writer Avijit Roy, a prominent critic of extremist Islam, was hacked to death last week as he walked with his wife in Dhaka.

A prominent American blogger known for his writing against religious fundamentalism has been hacked to death by cleaver-wielding attackers in Bangladesh’s capital.