Hindu monastery worker mutilated and murdered in Bangladesh

A Hindu monastery worker found himself to be the latest victim in a string of attacks on secular and minority targets as he was hacked to death in Bangladesh

10 June 2016, 8:31am

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Local news agancies said the attack happened very close to the monastery

Nityaranjan Pande, who was in his 60s, died on the spot after several people attacked him early on Friday, AFP news agency said.

Pande, who was attacked during his morning walk, had been working at the monastery for 40 years, officials said.

"He was a simple man. He had no enemies," local NGO worker Naresh Madhu told local news agency bdnews24.

"There was no eye-witness to the attack as it happened very early in the morning," Alamgir Kabir, head of police in the north-western district of Pabna, told AFP.

His murder comes after the body of a Hindu priest was found with his head nearly severed in a field on Tuesday.

More than 40 people have been killed since January last year in a wave of attacks, including secular bloggers, academics and gay rights activists.

Most of the attacks have been blamed on, or claimed by, terrorist militants.