Gunmen attack Shiite mosque in Bangladesh; 1 dead

Gunmen shot worshipers at the Shiite mosque in the northern town of Bogra during prayers, killing one and injuring three.

OC Habib said police found eight empty bullet cartridges inside the mosque and noted that three bullets had hit a pillar.

Mohammed Asaduzzaman, Bogra district police chief, reportedly said that the man who was killed was a mosque official in his 70s.

He said unidentified miscreants entered the mosque and opened fire indiscriminately on the devotees soon after the Maghrib prayer, leaving three more people injured.

The attack on the procession on October 24 was allegedly carried out by Jamaatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh militant group, police said.

The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuses domestic Islamist groups along with the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its main Islamist ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami party, of carrying out the attacks to destabilize the country for political gain.

The main suspect behind a Shia shrine bomb blast in Bangladesh has been shot dead by police during a raid.

Bangladesh has seen a rise in militant violence in recent months, with two foreigners, four secular writers and a publisher killed this year.

According to the jihadist threat monitoring portal, SITE Intelligence Group, the IS claimed responsibility for the bombings in an online statement.

In September, police in Bangladesh investigated the killing of an Italian aid worker, after ISIL claimed responsibility.

Indicating that the BSF has been forced to resort to open fire to impose night curfew and check the trans-border crimes between the two countries, security sources said that joint working group also took up the issue of some top insurgent leaders taking shelter across the border.