70-year-old monk hacked to death in Bangladesh
BY Agencies15 May 2016 12:23 AM GMT
Agencies15 May 2016 12:23 AM GMT
A 70-year-old Buddhist monk was on Saturday brutally hacked to death inside a remote monastery in Bangladesh, with police saying the incident bore the hallmark of previous killings of secular activists, bloggers and minorities by Islamists in the Muslim-majority nation.
Mawng Shoi Wuu, chief of the monastery located in the isolated and rugged Naikkhangchari area of Bandarban hill district, was found dead on Saturday morning by a Buddhist devotee as he went to serve him breakfast, police said.
“The assailants slit his throat... It appears he was murdered sometime after the midnight when he was staying alone at the monastery,” officer-in-charge of Naikkhangchhari police station Kazi Ahsan said.
The killing bears the hallmark of previous murders of intellectuals, bloggers and minorities by Islamists in the country.
No group has claimed responsibility for the murder of the monk so far and an investigation has been ordered to track down the assailants.
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