Unidentified miscreants hacked an elderly Buddhist monk to death inside a monastery in southeast Bangladesh.
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Seventy-year-old, Mong Shwe U Chak’s body was found near Baishari Bihar at Uppar Chak Para village in the upazila, the Daily Star Quoted Abul Khair, officer-in-charge (OC) of Naikkhangchhari Police Station, as saying.
“We saw human footprints in the temple and found that four to five people entered the compound”, he said.
Police are investigating killing and say no group has claimed responsibility for assault yet..
Meanwhile, Aung Sa Dhoai Chak, son of the victim, said that his father did not have any enmity with anyone in the area. “He had received death threats, but nobody took it seriously”, Advocate Jyotirmoy Barua said.
Police say they do not know the motive for the killing of the monk, who lived alone.
Recently, Bangladesh has been in the news for the murders of non-Muslim community priests and the responsibility of these murders has been claimed by Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda.
Late last month, unknown assailants hacked two people to death in the capital, two days after a university professor was murdered in a similar way in the country’s northwest.
Clashes broke out in Bangladesh last week after the main Islamist party called a nationwide strike to protest against its leader’s execution for war crimes.
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Buddhists make up less than one per cent of Bangladesh’s population of 160 million people.
