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| A Hindu monastery worker has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, police said, the latest in a string of attacks on secular and minority targets. | |
| Nityaranjan Pande, who was in his 60s, died on the spot after several people attacked him early on Friday, AFP news agency said citing police. | |
| His murder comes after the body of a Hindu priest was found with his head nearly severed in a field on Tuesday. | His murder comes after the body of a Hindu priest was found with his head nearly severed in a field on Tuesday. |
| Most of the attacks have been blamed on, or claimed by, Islamist militants. | Most of the attacks have been blamed on, or claimed by, Islamist militants. |
| "There was no eye-witness to the attack as it happened very early in the morning," the head of police in the north-western district of Pabna, Alamgir Kabir, told AFP. | |
| No group has said they carried out the attack. | |
| Who is behind the Bangladesh killings? | |
| Is extremism on the rise in Bangladesh? | |
| Lurching from secularism to sectarian terror? | |
| 'No enemies' | |
| Mr 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. | |
| Bdnews24 said the attack happened very close to the monastery. | |
| More than 40 people have been killed since January last year in a wave of attacks, including secular bloggers, academics and gay rights activists. | |
| Bangladesh has a majority Muslim population with Hindu's making up about 8% of the population. | |
| Who is being targeted? | |
| The grim list of those who have fallen victim to attacks by Islamist militants in Bangladesh is growing ever more diverse. | |
| Secular bloggers, academics, gay rights activists, and members of religious minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus have all been killed, many of them hacked to death. | |
| A university professor whose family said he was not an atheist was murdered in April, suggesting the list of those at risk had widened further. | |
| Who exactly is behind the attacks remains murky. Bangladesh has myriad extremist groups and there have been few convictions over the attacks. | |
| Bangladesh has disputed claims by so-called Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda-linked groups for the attacks, instead often blaming opposition parties or local Islamist groups. | |
| But until the killings stop the government itself will face accusations of not doing enough to protect minorities in the Sunni-dominated nation. |