<div>A 70-year-old Buddhist monk was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants inside a monastery in southeast Bangladesh, a week after a Muslim Sufi preacher was murdered in a similar attack.<br /><br />Mawng Shoi Wuu, chief of the monastery located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts district of Bandarban's Naikhyongchari Upazila, was found dead in this morning by a worker, police said.<br /><br />Assailants slit his throat sometime last night, they said. The latest assault bears the hallmark of previous murders of intellectuals, bloggers and minorities by Islamists in the country.<br /><br />Last week, a 65-year-old Muslim Sufi preacher was hacked to death by unidentified machete-wielding assailants in northwest Bangladesh's Rajshahi city.<br /><br />No group has claimed responsibility for the murder of the monk so far. There have been systematic assaults in Bangladesh in recent weeks especially targeting minorities, secular bloggers, intellectuals and foreigners.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Two days later, Bangladesh's first gay magazine editor was brutally murdered along with a friend in his flat in Dhaka by Islamists.<br /><br />On April 30, a Hindu tailor was also hacked to death by machete-wielding ISIS militants in his shop in central Bangladesh. <br /></div>
<div>A 70-year-old Buddhist monk was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants inside a monastery in southeast Bangladesh, a week after a Muslim Sufi preacher was murdered in a similar attack.<br /><br />Mawng Shoi Wuu, chief of the monastery located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts district of Bandarban's Naikhyongchari Upazila, was found dead in this morning by a worker, police said.<br /><br />Assailants slit his throat sometime last night, they said. The latest assault bears the hallmark of previous murders of intellectuals, bloggers and minorities by Islamists in the country.<br /><br />Last week, a 65-year-old Muslim Sufi preacher was hacked to death by unidentified machete-wielding assailants in northwest Bangladesh's Rajshahi city.<br /><br />No group has claimed responsibility for the murder of the monk so far. There have been systematic assaults in Bangladesh in recent weeks especially targeting minorities, secular bloggers, intellectuals and foreigners.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Two days later, Bangladesh's first gay magazine editor was brutally murdered along with a friend in his flat in Dhaka by Islamists.<br /><br />On April 30, a Hindu tailor was also hacked to death by machete-wielding ISIS militants in his shop in central Bangladesh. <br /></div>