Bangladesh Shia Mosque Terror Attack

The attackers shot at worshippers in the mosque in the Bogra district during evening prayers, police said.

The attack came hours after police in Dhaka announced that the militant suspected of being a key to planning bombings on Bangladeshi Shias’ Ashura mourning procession gatherings last month has been “killed in shoot-out”.

Gunmen opened fire during evening prayers at a Shia mosque in Bangladesh on Thursday, killing one person and wounding three, police said – the second attack on the country’s tiny Shia Muslim community.

Police accused the slain militant, a JMB commander who went by multiple aliases including “Albany”, of hurling grenades into the capital’s main Shia shrine which was packed with worshippers last month, killing two and injuring dozens.

The government has consistently denied that ISIS has a presence in the country and instead blamed religious groups such as the Jamaat for instigating violence in the predominantly Muslim, but secular nation of 160 million people.

In the firing, the mosque’s 70-year-old muezzin, Moyazzem Hossain, died while three others were injured and had been admitted in a hospital, the Daily Star reported.

The police have detained two members of Bangladesh’s biggest religion-based party on suspicion they were involved in ISIS propaganda, including one who called himself “Jihadi John”, a police commissioner said on Wednesday. The bomb attacks by suspected Islamist Sate group are being investigated.

The government has rejected Islamic State claims of involvement in other attacks and says local militants are involved.