{"id":25026,"date":"2016-05-01T04:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T04:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/hindu-tailor-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T04:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T04:34:57","slug":"hindu-tailor-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/hindu-tailor-hacked-to-death-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu tailor hacked to death in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Police in Tangail investigating whether victim was targeted for his religious beliefs or killed in a family dispute.}<\/p>\n

At least two unknown assailants have hacked a Hindu tailor to death in central Bangladesh, police say, amid a rise in attacks on religious minorities in the South Asian nation.<\/p>\n

Police officials said they were investigating whether Saturday’s killing in Tangail was linked to religious groups suspected of a series of minority killings, or was tied to a family dispute.<\/p>\n

“They came on a motorcycle and attacked him as he sat on a roadside. They hacked him on his head, neck and hand,” Aslam Khan, deputy chief of Tangail district police, told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group has claimed credit for the attack in a post online but the claim could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh is reeling from a series of attacks on members of minority faiths, secularists, foreigners and intellectuals in recent months, including two gay activists and a liberal professor in the past eight days alone.<\/p>\n

Many of the killings have been blamed on or claimed by groups such as al-Qaeda or ISIL.<\/p>\n

Police said local Muslims had filed a complaint against Joarder, who owned a tailoring shop, to police in 2012 for making comments about Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n

He was charged with hurting religious sentiments and spent three weeks in jail.<\/p>\n

“But the trial did not proceed after the complainants withdrew the charges,” Abdul Jalil, the police chief of Gopalpur sub-district, told AFP.<\/p>\n

ISIL threat<\/p>\n

Another police official said that the dispute appeared to have ended peacefully, adding that the victim’s family said he was also being threatened by a relative.<\/p>\n

The murder came less than a week after attackers hacked to death two gay-rights activists in the capital Dhaka, saying they tried to promote homosexuality in the deeply conservative nation.<\/p>\n

In February suspected ISIL supporters decapitated a top Hindu priest inside a temple complex in a northern district.<\/p>\n

However, the government denies that international groups such as ISIL or al-Qaeda have a presence in the country.<\/p>\n

Hindus make up around nine percent of Bangladesh’s population.<\/p>\n

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