A Hindu tailor was hacked to death in Bangladesh on Saturday, the latest victim in a series of similar attacks in this South Asian nation.<\/p>\n
Police said Nikhil Joarder was inside his tailoring shop in the central Bangladeshi district of Tangail when at least two assailants drove up on motorbikes and attacked him with machetes.<\/p>\n
He died immediately, according to Tangail Police Superintendent Mohammed Tanvir.<\/p>\n
The superintendent said a complaint was filed against Joarder in 2012 for making derogatory comments about the Prophet Mohammed.<\/p>\n
Joarder was then arrested and released after spending a few weeks in jail, police said.<\/p>\n
Authorities don’t know “if there is a link between the murder and the comments he made in 2012,” Tanvir told CNN.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, two LGBT activists — one of whom also worked for the USAID, an American government organization for poverty prevention — were hacked to death in Dhaka.<\/p>\n
The USAID said the employee was Xulhaz Mannan, who worked at the organization but also served as editor of Bangladesh’s first LGBT magazine.<\/p>\n
The other victim was Tanay Mojumdar.<\/p>\n
Like Mannan, he was openly gay and was a leader in the fight for LGBT rights, a British photographer told CNN’s Ivan Watson.<\/p>\n
Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladeshi division of al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent, has claimed responsibility for the killings.<\/p>\n
Human Rights Watch called on Bangladesh to investigate the murders.<\/p>\n
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Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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