A Buddhist monk hacked to death in Bangladesh
A 70-year-old Buddhist monk was brutally hacked to death on Saturday inside a remote monastery in Bangladesh, with police saying the incident bore the hallmark of previous killings of secular activists, bloggers and minorities by Islamists in the Muslim-majority nation.
"Mawng Shoi Wuu, chief of a monastery located in the isolated and rugged area of Bandarban Hill district, was found dead on Saturday morning," the police said.
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According to the officials, the assailants slit his throat and It appears that he was murdered sometime after midnight when he was staying alone at the monastery." Â No group has claimed responsibility for the murder of the monk so far and an investigation has been ordered to track down the assailants.
The recent murder comes exactly a week after a 65-year- old Muslim Sufi preacher was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a mosque in Rajshahi city. A liberal professor from the same area was also killed by ISIS militants near his house. Two days later, the editor of Bangladesh’s first gay magazine was brutally murdered along with a friend in his flat in Dhaka by Islamists. Followed by which a Hindu tailor was also hacked to death by ISIS militants in his shop in central Bangladesh.
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The ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Indian Peninsula have claimed responsibility for some of the attacks though the government denies their presence in Bangladesh.