The US State Department has expressed its outrage after two men – one of whom worked at the American embassy in Bangladesh and edited the country’s only LGBT magazine – were hacked to death in the capital Dhaka. <br /><br /> The murders of Xulhaz Mannan, 35, a prominent gay rights activist, and of a friend, on Monday have sparked widespread condemnation. Suspected Islamist militants reportedly posed as couriers to get into an apartment where the brutal killings took place.<br /><br /> A third person was wounded.<br /><br /> The editor of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine has been ‘hacked to death’ in Dhaka.https://t.co/OJKhKo3qdH pic.twitter.com/bnBmixzUJd— Gay Times Magazine (@GayTimesMag) 25 avril 2016<br /><br /> Witnesses said the attackers shouted “Allahu Akbar (God is greatest)” as they fled the scene.<br /><br /> Mannan previously worked at the US Embassy in Dhaka. <br /><br /> US Ambassador Marcia Bernicat condemned the killings.<br /><br /> “We abhor this senseless act of violence and urge the government of Bangladesh in the strongest terms to ap
