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ISIL claims responsibility for killing of Hindu monastery worker
According to a monitoring service tracking armed groups’ online activity, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu monastery worker in northeastern Bangladesh.
SITE Intelligence Group, a US-based monitoring service, reported on Saturday that the claim was carried by ISIL’s Amaq news agency.
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Friday’s killing of the Hindu monastery worker Nityaranjan Pande, in the northwestern district of Pabna, follows the murder of a Hindu priest on Tuesday.
Unidentified attackers hacked to death a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker in Bangladesh, police say, in a continuous attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim coun
“As he was walking, several attackers hacked him in the neck … He died on the spot,” Abdullah Al-Hasan, a local police station chief said.
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