{"id":5768,"date":"2016-02-22T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=5765&amp;preview_id=5765"},"modified":"2016-02-22T20:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:14:38","slug":"militants-slay-hindu-priest-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"Militants slay Hindu priest in Bangladesh | Dailytimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>DHAKA:<\/strong> Suspected militants stabbed and killed a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and injured a devotee who went to his aid, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh has suffered a wave of militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on mosques and Hindu temples.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, which has also said it is behind the killings of a Japanese citizen, an Italian aid worker and a policeman.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s attack, five or six motorcycle-borne attackers cut the throat of the priest, Jogeshwar Roy, 55, as he was organising prayers at the Deviganj temple near Panchagar, 494 km north of Dhaka, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect that they might be members of the banned militant group Jamaatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB),\u201d police official Humayun Kabir said.<\/p>\n<p>JMB could not be reached for comment. No group has so far claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the killing was probably to create an unstable situation in the country and ultimately establish a caliphate, Kabir, the deputy director general of police in the area, added.<\/p>\n<p>One devotee who tried to stop the priest\u2019s attackers was shot in the leg before the group fled, he said. Police have not yet made any arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The government denies that IS has a presence in the country of 160 million people. Police have blamed earlier attacks on home-grown militants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Suspected militants stabbed and killed a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and injured a devotee who went to his aid, police said. Bangladesh has suffered a wave of militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on mosques and Hindu temples. Some of the attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[153,1284,242,274,66,1203,1285],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}