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Bangladesh enhances security for foreigners

Bangladesh stepped up security for foreign diplomats and citizens yesterday after the killing of two foreigners within a week in attacks claimed by Islamic State, which has vowed similar further assaults in the Muslim-majority nation.

Japanese citizen Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down on Saturday by three masked men on a motorcycle while on his way to a grass farm project in the northern district of Rangpur, an attack similar to Tuesday’s shooting of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella.

Attacks on foreigners are rare in Bangladesh. But the country has been convulsed by a rising tide of Islamist violence over the past year in which four online critics of religious militancy were hacked to death, a US citizen among them.

“Extra forces have been deployed at foreign diplomats and citizens’ homes and workplaces across the country,” said Muntasirul Islam, a deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Police have not confirmed Islamic State, which has ambitions to spread into South Asia, is behind the two attacks. Dhaka police arrested two suspected recruiters for the Islamist group over the past year.

On Saturday, Islamic State warned of more attacks.

“There will continue to be a series of ongoing security operations against nationals of crusader coalition countries, they will not have safety or a livelihood in Muslim lands,” the group tweeted.

Western embassies curtailed the movements of diplomats in Bangladesh over concerns foreigners are being targeted.




 

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