IS claims killing of Hindu monastery in Pabna

block

Reuters :Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of a Hindu monastery worker who was stabbed to death in Bangladesh, a monitoring service tracking militant online activity reported a day after the slaying.It was the third killing of a member of religious minorities in the mostly Muslim country that the group has taken responsibility for in the past week.The claim was carried by Islamic State’s Amaq news agency, Site Intelligence Group, a US-based monitoring service, reported on Saturday. Police said unidentified assailants attacked Nitya Ranjan Pandey, 60, while he was walking in the northwestern district of Pabna early on Friday morning.”He was found lying in a pool of blood,” district police chief Alamgir Kabir said, adding that no one saw the attackers.

block