Nine journalists were wounded when a gang of men wielding machetes stormed Bangladesh’s best-known online media outlet and began slashing staff, police and witnesses said Tuesday. At least 15 attackers burst into the offices of bdnews24.com late on Monday in northern Dhaka, leaving three people seriously wounded and prompting fresh protests about violence against the media in the deeply impoverished country. “They broke open our office door and started yelling at us. Moments later they started hacking some of our colleagues in the office’s ground floor,” said senior reporter Abdur Rahim Harmachhi, who was slightly injured in the attack. “Blood was all over the news-floor and in the staircase. Some of us hid on the upper-floor… The attack lasted several minutes, but for 40 minutes we could not take the injured to clinic as the gang was waiting downstairs,” he said. Annie Wahid, wife of injured journalist Salahuddin Wahid, told AFP that her husband had been slashed on the thigh.
