A Bangladeshi professor known for his secular activism and science fiction writing was attacked at a university in the city of Sylhet in northeastern Bangladesh, local officials said on Saturday.
Zafar Iqbal, a professor at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, was rushed to a local hospital following the attack.
"He was hit on the back of his head and he was bleeding," a police constable at the hospital told news agency AFP.
The 65-year-old was stabbed from behind as he was about to take the stage to address a science festival that had been organized by the university, said university proctor Zahir Uddin.
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