Hindu priest slaughtered |
A 70-year-old Hindu priest was found murdered in western Bangladesh on June 6, 2016, , with his head nearly severed from his body, in the latest in a series of attacks on minorities by suspected Islamists.Farmers discovered the body of Ananda Gopal Ganguly near his home in the village of Noldanga in Jhenidah district after he had gone missing on his way to morning prayers.Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, investigators said the killing bore the hallmarks of recent attacks by Islamist extremists who have carried out 10 other similar killings in the last 10 weeks. Ganguly`s murder comes only two days after a Christian was hacked to death after Sunday prayers near a church in northwest Bangladesh in an attack claimed by IS.A Hindu shop owner was also hacked to death outside his store in the northern Gaibandha district late last month. IS said it was behind that killing as well.Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of murders of secular and liberal activists and religious minorities that have left more than 40 people dead in the last three years.Most of the recent attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State organisation or the local offspring of al-Qaida.
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