{"id":55,"date":"2016-06-11T05:22:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hrcb.org\/?p=55"},"modified":"2016-06-11T05:22:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T05:22:31","slug":"volunteer-at-hindu-ashram-in-bangladesh-is-hacked-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcb.org\/index.php\/volunteer-at-hindu-ashram-in-bangladesh-is-hacked-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer at Hindu Ashram in Bangladesh is Hacked to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

DHAKA, Bangladesh \u2014 A Hindu man was hacked to death in northern\u00a0Bangladesh<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, the latest in a string of such killings in the country.<\/p>\n

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The victim, Nityaranjan Pandey, a volunteer at a Hindu ashram in the district of Pabna, was taking a walk early Friday morning when he was attacked by unknown assailants, said Abdullah Al Hassan, the officer in charge of the Pabna Sadar police station.Mr. Pandey, about 60, had been a volunteer at the Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra Satsang ashram, Mr. Hassan said. He joined the ashram roughly 35 years ago and was a volunteer priest, said Tapas Kumar Roy, a priest at the ashram.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did not find any witness of this criminal incident, so we don\u2019t have any more details,\u201d Mr. Hassan said. \u201cWe found two deep wounds of hacking on the neck of Pandey.\u201d<\/p>\n

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and Mr. Hassan said the police had no suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cPandey was a person who preferred to live alone, like an isolated person,\u201d said Mr. Roy, who added that Mr. Pandey had not received any threats and that the ashram had never had any problems with local residents. \u201cHe used to stay away from any kind of problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

For years, similar attacks in Bangladesh have been directed at secular bloggers and intellectuals, but more recently the assaults have targeted other groups, including religious minorities, gay rights activists and foreigners. Often, they have been carried out with machetes in public places. On Tuesday,\u00a0a Hindu priest was killed<\/a>in the country\u2019s southwest while riding his bicycle.<\/p>\n

Both the Islamic State and a branch of Al Qaeda have claimed responsibility for some of the attacks, according to statements attributed to them by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity online. But the authorities in Bangladesh have denied the presence in the country of foreign militants, and the police have said they\u00a0suspect<\/a>\u00a0Islamist militants operating inside Bangladesh were behind many of the attacks.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the police in Dhaka, the capital,\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that they would begin a weeklong crackdown on militants on Friday, conducting raids throughout the country, according to The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper.<\/p>\n

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Nida Najar contributed reporting from New Delhi.<\/p>\n

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