Hindu monastery worker hacked to death in Bangladesh

Unidentified attackers hacked a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker to death in Bangladesh on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of such attacks on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.

Police said Nityaranjan Pande was taking his regular early morning walk when the attackers set upon him, killing him on the spot.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

But the head of police in the northwestern district of Pabna where the Shri Shri Thakur Anukul-chandra Ashram is located said the killing bore the hallmarks of recent attacks by Islamist extremists on minorities and secular activists.