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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.)
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