Sylhet: Members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested two siblings from East Paljur village at Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet on early Friday in connection with the killing of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das.

The arrestees are Manan Yeahia alias Mannan Rahi and his brother Mohaimin Noman alias AAM Noman.

Tipped off, a CID team launched a drive at the village in the early hours and arrested the two brothers, said Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) additional deputy commissioner Mohammad Rahmat Ullah.

Blogger Ananta, also an activist of Sylhet Ganajagaran Mancha, was hacked to death by a group of assailants in broad daylight at Subidbazar Bankalapara in the city on 12 May.

On 13 May, Rateshwar Das, elder brother of Ananta Bijoy, filed a case against four people with the Airport Police Station.

Ananta Bijoy was also a writer in the ‘Mukto-Mona blog’, founded by blogger Avijit Roy - who had been murdered two and a half months ago after he came home from the USA.