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DHAKA:A 65-year-old Christian convert was hacked to death in Bangladesh today by three motorbike-borne unidentified assailants, the latest in a series of attacks on minorities by Islamists in the Muslim majority country.

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Dhaka, March 22

A 65-year-old Christian convert was hacked to death in Bangladesh today by three motorbike-borne unidentified assailants, the latest in a series of attacks on minorities by Islamists in the Muslim majority country. 

Hossain Ali, a pastor at a church and a 1971 liberation war veteran, was killed by miscreants in the northern Bangladeshi town of Kurigram this morning, two months after another converted Christian was murdered in western Jhinaidah for which the Islamic State had claimed responsibility.

A local source said Ali was a pastor at a church. — PTI

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