Baku-APA. A 70-year-old Hindu priest was hacked to death Tuesday in southwestern Bangladesh, police say, APA reports quoting CNN.
ISIS released a statement saying its "soldiers of the caliphate" are responsible for the priest's death.
"God willing, the knives of Mujahedeen will continue until we cleanse Bangladesh from the wrath of polytheism," the statement said.
The priest, Ananda Gopal Ganguly, was on his way to temple when the assailants attacked him in a field in a secluded part of a village in the country's Jhenaidah district, Altaf Hossain, a police superintendent, told CNN.
He said police have never received complaints about threats to the Hindu community in the village.
"We believe the attackers came from outside the village," Hossain said.
An investigation is underway.
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