Bangladesh police say Buddhist monk killed in monastery
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Police say a 75-year-old Buddhist monk has been killed in a monastery in southeastern Bangladesh.
Local police official Abul Khayer says the body of Maung Shue U. Chak was found Saturday morning by his daughter-in-law when she went to give him some food. His throat had been slit overnight.
While no one has claimed responsibility for the killing, it follows a slew of murders in recent years of members of religious minority groups, foreigners, atheist bloggers and secular publishers in Bangladesh by suspected Islamist radicals.
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The killings have come amid growing concern that religious extremism is gaining ground in the once moderate Muslim-majority nation of 160 million.