62-year-old hindu monastery worker hacked to death in Bangladesh

A 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker was on Friday hacked to death by unidentified attackers in Bangladesh.

Nityaranjan Pande was killed on the spot when he was taking his regular early morning walk, reported AFP.

"As a diabetic, everyday he walks early in the morning. Today as he was walking, several attackers hacked him in the neck... He died on the spot," local police station chief Abdullah Al-Hasan told AFP.

"He had been working at the monastery for around 40 years. In recent years he was the head of its office staff," he said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Although it is officially secular, around 90 percent of Bangladesh's 160 million-strong population is Muslim. Some eight percent of the population is Hindu.

Few days ago, a 65-year-old Hindu priest was killed by Islamic State while he was on his way to a temple. The terror group said it 'assassinated' the priest while he was going for prayers, the SITE monitoring group quoted the terror group's Amaq news agency.