Elderly Buddhist Monk Hacked to Death in Bangladesh

The killing bears the hallmark of previous murders of intellectuals, bloggers and minorities in the country.

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• 70-year-old Buddhist monk was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants inside a monastery in southeast Bangladesh. No group has claimed responsibility so far.
  
  
• Mawng Shoi Wuu, chief of the monastery located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts district of Bandarban’s Naikhyongchari Upazila, was found with his throat slit on Saturday morning.
  
  
• In recent attacks, a liberal professor was brutally hacked to death last month by machete-wielding near his home in Rajshahi city.
  
  
• Two days later, Bangladesh’s first gay magazine editor was brutally murdered along with a friend in his flat in Dhaka by Islamists.
  
  
• On April 30, a Hindu tailor was also hacked to death by machete-wielding ISIS militants in his shop in central Bangladesh.
  

(With PTI inputs.)