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Bangladeshi Hindu priest killed by suspected Islamist militants
 [DAWN] Suspected Islamist turbans stabbed and killed a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and injured a devotee who went to his aid, police said.Bangladesh has suffered a wave of turban violence in recent months, including a series of kabooms on mosques and Hindu temples. Some of the attacks have been claimed by the turban Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group, which has also said it is behind the killings of a Japanese citizen, an Italian aid worker and a policeman. In Sunday's attack, five or six cycle of violence-borne attackers cut the throat of the priest, Jogeshwar Roy, 55, as he was organising prayers at the Deviganj temple near Panchagar, 494 km north of the capital, Dhaka, police said. "We suspect that they might be members of the banned Islamist turban group Jamaatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB)," police official Humayun Kabir told Rooters. JMB could not be reached for comment. No group has so far grabbed credit. The motive for the killing was probably to create an unstable situation in the country and ultimately establish a caliphate, Kabir, the deputy director general of police in the area, added. One devotee who tried to stop the priest's attackers was shot in the leg before the group fled, he said. Police have not yet made any arrests. Posted by: Fred 2016-02-22 |
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