Japanese national shot dead in Bangladesh

The Daesh militant reportedly shot the victim and drove away from the scene.

Police in Bangladesh said they have detained three people in connection with the shooting death on Saturday of a Japanese citizen, the second foreign national killed in the South Asian nation within a week.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the fatal attack on Tavella.

Hoshi was going to his farm around 10:00am when three assailants riding a motorbike opened fire on the victim, the SP said quoting locals police said.

In a notice posted at 2:40pm (Bangladesh standard time) in its official Facebook page, the embassy said: “According to local media reports, a Japanese national was shot and killed by unknown miscreants in Kawnia, Rangpur city in the morning on October. 3 (Saturday)”.

Police said one of the four detained people was a rickshaw puller and another is owner of a residence close to where the attack took place.

Mr Hoshi’s body has been taken to a state-run hospital.

But the authorities said there was no evidence behind the claim.

An official of the Japanese embassy in Dhaka stated she was making an attempt to determine the small print of the incident and call family members in Japan to get extra details about the sufferer.

The incident came less than a week after an Italian aid worker was shot dead near the diplomatic zone of Dhaka.

Cesare Tavella, an Italian citizen working in Bangladesh on a food security project, was shot dead Monday by three gunmen in Dhaka.

Attacks on foreigners are uncommon in Bangladesh, regardless of a rising tide of Islamist violence over the previous yr that has seen 4 on-line critics of spiritual militancy hacked to demise, amongst them a D.R. citizen of Bangladesh origin.