1 Hindu killed in central Bangladesh

Unidentified attackers on Saturday hacked a minority Hindu people to death in Bangladesh's central Tangail district, some 97 km away from capital Dhaka, a police official said.

Aslam Khan, the district's additional superintendent of Police, told journalists that two assailants entered the tailoring shop of Nikhil Joarder, 50, at around 12:30 p.m. local time Saturday and stabbed him with machetes.

He said doctors declared him dead while he was rushed to a local hospital.

The motive behind the killing have not been known.

But sources said several months ago the Hindu guy was arrested for making derogatory comments about Islam Prophet Mohammad (pbuh).

It was not known whether the Islamist militants have killed him as part of taking revenge for his derogatory comments.

Muslim-majority Bangkadesh has been facing a surge in violent attacks in recent months in which secularists and other religious groups have been targeted.

Two persons including writer of a LGBT magazine were killed on Monday by unidentified assailants in Dhaka, hours after a prison guard was shot dead in a separate incident.

Source: XINHUA