A group of seven or eight men attacked a Hindu priest in Satkhira Sadar Upazila in Bangladesh on Saturday, the second such attack in the past 24 hours. Bhabasindhu Bor, the 48-year-old priest at Sree Radha Govinda temple in Brahmarajpur, was stabbed and injured critically. Bor was taken to Satkhira Sadar Hospital where he remains in critical condition. The attack took place inside the temple compound when Bor was asleep.

According to Daily Star, the assailants knocked on his door around 3.30 am (local time). Bor opened the door thinking it was the night guard and was stabbed in his chest and back. The assailants then fled from the spot.

On Friday, another Hindu priest was hacked to death by three bike-borne men. The trio attacked Shymanondo Das with machete. Das' death is the latest in a string of attacks targeting religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. 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. There have been at least 11 killings of the kind over the past three months.