The circle of targets for Bangladeshi extremists keeps widening.
Up until last year, their gruesome attacks seemed focused on secular bloggers who had spoken out against Islam. Recently, however, numerous academics, publishers, activists, foreign workers and non-Muslims have been hacked or fatally shot for allegedly insulting Islam.
The police have clearly struggled to stem the wave of violence. Today, suspected extremists killed Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, 30, the wife of the police superintendent in Bangladesh's second-biggest city.
She was stabbed nine times and shot in the head while walking her son to his school bus stop. At least three assailants escaped on a motorbike. Mitu is the first woman to be killed by extremists in the same fashion as the other recent attacks.
Her husband, Babul Akter, was recently promoted to his new role after leading a slew of raids against banned Islamist extremist groups, such as Jamaat ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh. Police officials told AP that they couldn't rule out that members of any of the groups Akter had fought against had carried out the killing.