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Assailants hack Hindu man to death in Bangladesh
Local police have now swung into action in Bangladesh after a Hindu man was hacked to death by unknown assailants.
Police in the city of Tangali are investigating whether the victim was killed in a family dispute or for his religious beliefs.
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“They came on a motorcycle and attacked him as he sat on a roadside. They hacked him on his head, neck and hand,” Aslam Khan, deputy chief of Tangail district police, told AFP news agency.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed credit for the attack in a post online but the claim could not be independently verified.
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