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ISIS claims attack on doctor hacked to death in Bangladesh

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Terrorist group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the killing of a village doctor who was hacked to death on his way to a weekly free clinic which he operated.

In what police suspected was the latest in a series of attacks by Islamists in the majority-Muslim nation, machete-wielding assailants killed the village doctor and also wounded a university teacher in Bangladesh on Friday.

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Eyewitnesses say the assailants rode a motorbike which they used to accost the victim in the western district of Kushtia, 150 miles (245 km) from Dhaka.

According to district police chief Mohammad Sahabuddin Chowdhury, the homeopathic doctor, Mir Sanaur Rahman, 55, was killed on the spot, and his companion, identified as Saifuzzaman, 45, suffered serious wounds. Police found a bloody machete at the scene.

“We suspect Islamist militants are behind the attack,” Chowdhury said.

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