Hindu priest killed in Bangladesh

Unidentified attackers have hacked to death a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker in Bangladesh, police say, the latest in a series of such attacks on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.he murder of 60-year-old Nityaranjan Pandey of the ‘Thakur Anukul Chandra Satsanga Paramtirtha Ashram’ took place even as the security agencies launched a country-wide crackdown on militants on Friday in the wake of the recent spate of murders of activists and religious minorities. At least eight people have been murdered since May 1.