The Islamic State on Monday claimed the brutal killing of a head priest in Bangladesh at a Hindu temple in an area bordering India, the first attack by the dreaded terror group targeting the community amid a series of similar assaults on religious minorities.
U.S.-based private SITE Intelligence Group published the ISIS statement in Arabic after the execution—style killing of 50-year-old Jagneshwar Roy at Sonapota village on Sunday in a pre-dawn attack in northern Panchagarh district’s Debiganj Upazila, some 494 km from here, that also injured two Hindu devotees.
“In a security operation, soldiers of the Caliphate liquidated the priest — the founder and head of the Deviganj temple that belongs to the Hindus,” read the English translation of the IS statement.
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