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Muslim Sufi leader murdered in B’desh

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Dhaka: A 65-year-old Muslim spiritual leader was hacked to death in central Bangladesh, in an attack that bears the hallmark of previous murders of intellectuals, bloggers and minorities by Islamists in the country.
Shahidullah was found dead with gashes on the right shoulder and a slit throat in a mango orchard in Rajshahi city’s Tanor upazila, police said. His body was recovered after locals called the police around 10:00pm last night, said Abdur Razzak, officer-in- charge of Tanor Police Station.
“It seems he was hacked first and then slaughtered,” he was quoted as saying by The Daily Star. There have been systematic assaults in Bangladesh in recent weeks especially targeting minorities, secular bloggers, intellectuals and foreigners. In the recent attacks, a liberal professor was brutally hacked to death last month by machete-wielding ISIS militants who slit his throat near his home in Rajshahi city. (PTI)

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