Top Hindu priest slaughtered in Bangladesh

February 21, 2016 19:45

A Hindu head priest in Bangladesh was today hacked to death by gun- and cleaver-wielding suspected Islamists at a temple in an area bordering India, in the latest attack on religious minorities that also injured two devotees.

In a predawn attack, motorbike-borne unidentified assailants, said to over three in number, pelted stones at the house of 50-year-old Jajneswar Roy in the premises of the Santagourhiyo Temple in northern Panchagarh district's Debiganj Upazila.

"They (assailants) first hurled stones at the temple which prompted him (Roy) to come out to see what actually happened. The killers then pounced on him and slit his throat," a devotee in the neighbourhood was quoted as saying.

Panchagarh police chief Giasuddin Ahmed, citing local people, said that the head priest was preparing for the morning prayers, when stones were hurled at the temple. The attack also wounded two Hindu devotees at the temple premises as the assassins were fleeing the scene on a motorbike, firing gunshots and hurling crude bombs to avoid being chased.

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