Bangladesh: Hindu Priest Hacked To Death

Dakka: Another Hindu priest was hacked to death today morning at a temple in Bangladesh, senior administrative officials said. Shaymanonda Das, 45, was killed in front of a temple in Jhinaidah district headquater, 300km, south west from the capital Dhaka.

“He was preparing morning prayers with flowers at the temple early in the morning and that time three young people came by a motor bike and killed him with machetes and fled away,” said Mahbubur Rahman, the chief of Jhenaidah district administration.

Police said they did not know the motive behind the killing of the Hindu priest and no one had been arrested. Last month, a 70-year-old Hindu priest was hacked to death in a rice paddy field in the same district as Friday’s attack.