Italian aid worker killed in Bangladesh 'by IS'

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Source: BBC

Bangladesh police are investigating the murder of an Italian aid worker who was shot on Monday night.

The Islamic State group says it carried on the attack, shooting dead Cesare Tavella, 50, in the capital Dhaka's diplomatic quarter.

Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said Tavella was jogging when two attackers fired at him from behind.

The US and UK urged citizens to be cautious, saying they had information Western interests could be targeted.


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The claim by the extremist group, which controls swaths of Iraq and Syria and is intent on expanding its influence across the Muslim world, could not immediately be verified independently. If it was confirmed, it would mark the group’s first attack in the secular south Asian nation.

Bangladesh has been struggling in recent months with the rapid rise of hardline Islamist groups, banning several blamed in the killing of four bloggers this year.

The British and US governments have warned their nationals to be aware of the security threat in Bangladesh following the most recent shooting.

Police in Dhaka said they had no leads in tracing the three unidentified assailants, who, riding on a single motorcycle, drove up alongside Italian citizen Cesare Tavella and shot him on Monday night.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/isis-claims-responsibility-for-shooting-dead-italian-in-bangladesh

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1. Bangladesh: Japanese man shot and killed in Kaunia

A Japanese man has been shot dead in northern Bangladesh, police said, in the second killing of a foreign national in a week.

Kunio Hoshi, who worked for a farming project, was attacked by unknown assailants in the town of Kaunia.
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Attacks on foreigners in Bangladesh are rare, correspondents say, but Islamist violence has surged recently, including high-profile attacks on atheist bloggers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34432697