Elderly Buddhist monk hacked to death in Bangladesh
Police in Bangladesh say a 75-year-old Buddhist friar has been hacked to death in the south-eastern region of Bandarban.
An authority said the friar's body was found inside a Buddhist sanctuary.
It is the most recent in a spate of homicides of religious minorities, common activists and scholastics.
More than 20 individuals have been murdered by suspected Islamists in the most recent three years.
Is rough radicalism on the ascent in Bangladesh?
Who is behind the killings?
Reeling from secularism to partisan fear?
Police said Maung Shue U Chak seemed to have been assaulted by no less than four individuals at the sanctuary in Baishari, 350km (220 miles) south-east of the capital Dhaka.
His executing takes after the homicide of two conspicuous gay activists, a law understudy and a college teacher in April.
In February a Hindu minister was decapitated in northern Bangladesh.
The alleged Islamic State (IS) gathering and a Bangladeshi aggressor bunch associated to al-Qaeda have said they completed a portion of the killings.
IS has likewise said it done assaults on Shia Muslim mosques and places of worship and also the killings of two nonnatives - an Italian guide specialist and a Japanese cultivating master - a year ago.
Recently Singapore expelled eight Bangladeshis it said were individuals from a gathering set up in Spring called Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB) and were plotting assaults in their country.
However the Bangladeshi government denies there is an IS nearness in the nation.
Muslim-lion's share Bangladesh is formally mainstream however commentators say the legislature has neglected to make fitting move in the wake of the assaults.
An authority said the friar's body was found inside a Buddhist sanctuary.
It is the most recent in a spate of homicides of religious minorities, common activists and scholastics.
More than 20 individuals have been murdered by suspected Islamists in the most recent three years.
Is rough radicalism on the ascent in Bangladesh?
Who is behind the killings?
Reeling from secularism to partisan fear?
Police said Maung Shue U Chak seemed to have been assaulted by no less than four individuals at the sanctuary in Baishari, 350km (220 miles) south-east of the capital Dhaka.
His executing takes after the homicide of two conspicuous gay activists, a law understudy and a college teacher in April.
In February a Hindu minister was decapitated in northern Bangladesh.
The alleged Islamic State (IS) gathering and a Bangladeshi aggressor bunch associated to al-Qaeda have said they completed a portion of the killings.
IS has likewise said it done assaults on Shia Muslim mosques and places of worship and also the killings of two nonnatives - an Italian guide specialist and a Japanese cultivating master - a year ago.
Recently Singapore expelled eight Bangladeshis it said were individuals from a gathering set up in Spring called Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB) and were plotting assaults in their country.
However the Bangladeshi government denies there is an IS nearness in the nation.
Muslim-lion's share Bangladesh is formally mainstream however commentators say the legislature has neglected to make fitting move in the wake of the assaults.
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