Hindu holy man hacked to death in Bangladesh
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Police say assailants hacked a Hindu holy man to death in northern Bangladesh and fled without anyone witnessing the attack.
The victim, 60-year-old Nitya Ranjan Pandey, is the second Hindu to be killed this week amid a campaign of violence by suspected Islamist militants targeting the country's secular bloggers, gay rights activists and religious minorities.
Local police chief Abdullah Al Hasan said Pandey was taking a morning walk Friday when he was killed near his ashram in Pabna, about 275 kilometers (170 miles) from the capital, Dhaka.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Pabna district police chief Alamgir Kabir said radical Islamists are suspected of carrying out the attack.