NEW DELHI: A Hindu temple worker was hacked to death in western Bangladesh on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks on religious minorities by suspected militants.
Three men on a motorcycle attacked Shyamananda Das as he walked along a road near the temple early in the morning, police said.
“They hacked him on his neck three times and there was one stabbing mark in his head,” deputy district police chief Gopinath Kanjilal told AFP.
“He died after he was brought to hospital.”
Police said the 50-year-old, also known as Babaji, was a volunteer who helped conduct prayers at temples.
“He was an itinerant temple volunteer who travels from one temple to another to serve the Hindu devotees. He came to this temple only yesterday,” said local police chief inspector Hasan Hafizur Rahman.
“He was attacked as he walked outside the temple to collect flowers for prayer services,” he told AFP.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police said it bore the hallmarks of recent murders of religious minorities by suspected homegrown militants.
Three men on a motorcycle attacked Shyamananda Das as he walked along a road near the temple early in the morning, police said.
“They hacked him on his neck three times and there was one stabbing mark in his head,” deputy district police chief Gopinath Kanjilal told AFP.
“He died after he was brought to hospital.”
Police said the 50-year-old, also known as Babaji, was a volunteer who helped conduct prayers at temples.
“He was an itinerant temple volunteer who travels from one temple to another to serve the Hindu devotees. He came to this temple only yesterday,” said local police chief inspector Hasan Hafizur Rahman.
“He was attacked as he walked outside the temple to collect flowers for prayer services,” he told AFP.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but police said it bore the hallmarks of recent murders of religious minorities by suspected homegrown militants.
