Bangladesh Sufi Muslim killed in suspected Islamist attack

Dhaka (AFP) – A Sufi Muslim leader has been found hacked to death in Bangladesh in a suspected Islamist killing, police said Saturday, two weeks after the murder of a liberal professor in the same northwestern district claimed by the Islamic State group.

“He was not a famous Sufi. But there could be a possibility that he was killed by Islamist militants,” Rajshahi district police chief Nisharul Arif said, adding that the killing was “similar” to a recent spate of hacking deaths of religious minorities.