A priest of Bangladesh's Shri Shri Radha Madon Gopal Moth was hacked to death in Jhenaidah district on Friday, reported the Dhaka Tribune. The police are looking for the assailants who fled the spot after the incident.

The officer in-charge of the district police, Hasan Hazijur Rahman, said, “Shymanondo Das was collecting flowers for worship when three assailants riding on a motorcycle attacked him with a machete around 6:30 am on Friday." Das was taken to the nearby Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital where he was declared dead.

On June 10, a Hindu ashram worker was killed in Bangladesh while out on a morning walk, four days after a Hindu priest was murdered in similar fashion. Das' death is the latest in a string of attacks targeting religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. There have been at least 11 killings of the kind over the past three months.