Bangladesh police arrest student over professor's murder: official

Bangladesh police arrest student over professor's murder: official

The 58-year-old was afraid to afterlife as he absolved to the bus base from his home.

Bangladesh badge arrested an Islamist apprentice Sunday over the abominable annihilation of a assistant one day earlier, the latest such killing claimed by the Islamic State group.

Attackers wielding machetes about beheaded English assistant Rezaul Karim Siddique on Saturday in the northwestern city-limits of Rajshahi, afterward a cord of agnate killings of civil activists by Islamist militants.

The apprentice from Rajshahi University area Siddique accomplished was arrested aboriginal Sunday for questioning, although the coursing was still on for added suspects, said Rajshahi agent badge abettor Nahidul Islam.

He said the anonymous student, who is belief accessible administration, is a affiliate of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the apprentice addition of Bangladesh's better Islamist action affair the Jamaat-e-Islami.

"We accept bedfast a 21-year-old Rajshahi University apprentice who is a Shibir affiliate as a doubtable over the murder," Islam told AFP, after account his declared role in the attack.

Siddique was the fourth assistant from Rajshahi University to be dead by doubtable Islamists in contempo years.

Five civil bloggers and a administrator accept aswell been murdered, as able-bodied as associates of boyhood groups and foreigners, as Bangladesh reels from ascent Islamist violence.

Police said that in anniversary of the attacks on the bloggers and online activists, attackers afraid the victim to afterlife with machetes or cleavers.

There was no actual acknowledgment from the government to the Islamic State's affirmation of responsibility.

In the accomplished it has denied IS has a attendance in the country, instead blaming acquaintance Islamist militants for the murders and the action for aggravating to destabilise the country.

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