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Bangladeshi university professor hacked to death in Rajshahi

A college educator has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an assault police say is like killings of common bloggers and skeptics by suspected Islamist radicals.

AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was an educator of English at Rajshahi University in the nation's north-west.

He was assaulted with blades as he exited home to go to work.

Purported Islamic State activists say they murdered him for "calling to agnosticism" in Bangladesh.

The case was made by IS-connected Amaq Agency, refered to by US-based SITE Intelligence Group which screens jihadist bunches.

Notwithstanding, Siddique's associates prior said that he had not composed anything questionable and was not an agnostic, not at all like past casualties.

Police trust that he may have been focused by suspected Islamist fanatics since he was included in social exercises.

The BBC's Dhaka reporter Akbar Hossain says hardline Islamist bunches loathe anybody included in the social field.

A year ago, four conspicuous mainstream bloggers were murdered with cleavers.

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Siddique had established a music school and altered an artistic magazine, his family told the BBC.

Delegate police official Nahidul Islam told AFP news office that the music school was in Bagmara, a previous bastion of prohibited Islamist bunch Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
His family say they cannot understand his murder
Individuals from JMB were captured over an attack on an Italian Catholic cleric before the end of last year.

Siddique's wife, Hosne Ara, said she had no clue why anybody would need to slaughter her spouse.

"To the extent I know, my spouse didn't have any individual ill will with anybody. I can hardly imagine how he has been killed," she told the BBC.

Several understudies at Rajshahi University are accounted for to have challenged on grounds against their educator's demise and requested the quick capture of the culprits.

Siddique is the fourth teacher at the college to be have been executed in the previous 12 years. It is not clear why they have been focused on and no offenders have been rebuffed.

Prior this month, a Bangladeshi law understudy who had communicated mainstream sees online kicked the bucket when he was hacked with cleavers and after that shot in Dhaka.

The four bloggers executed a year ago had all showed up on a rundown of 84 "skeptic bloggers" drawn up by Islamic gatherings in 2013 and broadly circled.

There have likewise been assaults on individuals from religious minorities including Shia, Sufi and Ahmadi Muslims, Christians and Hindus.

A few men will be taken into custody for further judgment for a year ago's killings, including some joined to a hardline gathering called the Ansarullah Bangla Team.

Muslim-larger part Bangladesh is formally mainstream however faultfinders say the legislature has neglected to appropriately address the assaults.

A week ago, Prime Minister Sheik Hasina issued a stern cautioning to any individual who reprimanded religion: "I don't consider such compositions as freethinking however soiled words. Why might anybody compose such words? It's not under any condition satisfactory on the off chance that anybody composes against our prophet or different religions."
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