The monastery, named after a famous Hindu saint, draws large number of Hindu devotees from across Bangladesh and neighbouring India. In February, militants stabbed to death a Hindu priest at a temple and shot and wounded a devotee who went to his aid. Pandey's murder comes within a week of killings of a Hindu priest, a Christian grocer and wife of an anti-terror police officer. By PTI | Posted 1 hourDhaka: An elderly Hindu ashram worker was on Friday hacked to death by suspected Islamists in Bangladesh, becoming the fourth person from the minority community to be killed in a series of brutal attacks on secular activists in the Muslim-majority nation. TV reports suggested the authorities detained over 100 people and 47 of them were detained alone from Jhinaidah, the scene of the murder of Hindu priest Sunil Ganguly on Sunday.

Source: Mid-Day June 10, 2016 07:07 UTC